"Cinema basically examines a personality first and the……" — Peter Greenaway
"Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward."
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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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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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