Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
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I believe in goodnessMercy and charityI believe in a universal spiritI believe in casting breadUpon the waters
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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There is a word for people who are kept safe, fed, clothed, housed and sustained fully by others, and that word is SLAVES.
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.
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'How safe are we here?'
