"If you want to tell stories, be a…" — Peter Greenaway
"If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker."
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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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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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Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the…
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent…
— Darren Aronofsky
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These…
— Drew Barrymore
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons:…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of…
— Theodore Bikel
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As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're…
— Jeff Bridges
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I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And…
— Alton Brown
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It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to…
— Tim Burton
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