Peter Greenaway Quotes
No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
Quotes to Explore
-
It's better to do a film that works.
-
If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
-
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
-
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
-
People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
-
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
-
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
-
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
-
I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
-
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
-
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
-
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
-
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
-
I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
-
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
-
After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
-
You have to open up on stage.
-
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
-
This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.
-
She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
-
Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?
-
When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'
-
For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!
-
No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
