Peter Greenaway Quotes
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
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'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
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An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
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Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.
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You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
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From what they've said, it could be revolutionary. The product that they're going to be manufacturing has great marketing potential.
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Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
