Peter Greenaway Quotes

The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

Peter Greenaway

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Love
  • Job
  • Amazing

• Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Thanks
  • Japanese
  • Became

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Japanese

• I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Japanese

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Change
  • Japanese

• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kitchen
  • Italian
  • Japanese

• Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Want

• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Leader
  • First Lady
  • Follower

• I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Japanese

• The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Today

• We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Good
  • Drama
  • Story

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Like
  • Wrong

• One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Important
  • Team

• The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Japanese