Peter Greenaway Quotes
There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film - certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.
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I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.
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Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
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For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear and the children weren't.
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There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film - certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.
