Peter Greenaway Quotes

Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.

Peter Greenaway

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Way
  • Natural
  • Order

• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • School
  • Law
  • Day

• I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Best
  • Better
  • Find

• I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • True
  • Raised
  • Prided

• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Day

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • World
  • Best
  • Risk

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Key

• I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Never
  • English

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Law
  • Me

• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Message
  • Reflect
  • Be Careful

• I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Night
  • Movies
  • Scary

• Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Love
  • You
  • For Her

• The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Trying
  • First
  • Everything

• I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Mother
  • Impact
  • Mentors

• It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • World
  • Work
  • True

• The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Job
  • Single

• When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Home

• You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Faith

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Create

• Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Evil

• Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.

  

  Peter Greenaway