Peter Greenaway Quotes
Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
Quotes to Explore
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor!
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
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Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
