"As for critics, one mediocre writer is more……" — Peter Greenaway
"As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward."
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71 Quotes by Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway has 71 quotes on this site.
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that,…
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What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
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I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one…
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread…
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We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies.…
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An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than…
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Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I…
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I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce…
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More Barren Quotes
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
— Tony Blair
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Unknown Author
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
— Samuel Johnson
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