Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
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Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden, Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care
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I love the sound of those engines.
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These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
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Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew. The nothingness was a nakedness, a pointBeyond which thought could not progress as thought. He had to choose. But it was not a choice Between excluding things. It was not a choiceBetween, but of. He chose to include the things That in each other are included, the whole, The complicate, the amassing harmony.
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'Science Fiction, 1938' Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97
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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.
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Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
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If you touch one grain of this accursed tea, you are undone. America is threatened with worse than Egyptian slavery.
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I think it is more like a ghostthat has been following us both.Something vague that we're not seeing,something more like a feeling.
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'What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...'
