"I have a very, very secret drive to……" — Peter Greenaway
"I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised."
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71 Quotes by Peter Greenaway
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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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Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the…
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