"I do indeed think that cinema is mortal.……" — Peter Greenaway
"I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet."
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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 Cinema Quotes
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
— Antonio Banderas
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I am really not interested in the cinema.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't…
— Brigitte Bardot
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It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience…
— Orlando Bloom
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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
— Danny Boyle
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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary…
— Danny Boyle
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I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists…
— Danny Boyle
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next…
— Mel Brooks
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Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and…
— Sandra Bullock
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