Peter Greenaway Quotes
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
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I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
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I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.
