Peter Greenaway Quotes
... flaunting their erudition and relishing overt staginess, Peter Greenaway's films divide audiences. There are those who are prepared to entertain his conceits and play the game, and others for whom a Greenaway film is about as exciting as a guided tour through an ancient museum where the catalogue has been lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
-
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
-
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
-
Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
-
I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
-
Religion is induced insanity.
-
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
-
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
-
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
-
I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
-
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
-
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
-
I got lost but look what I found.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
-
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
-
I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
-
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
-
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
-
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'
-
No. I think I know what his feeling is and he knows ours. He's a very important guy and we've invested a lot in him. But we can say he's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years with us. We've had a good game plan talking things over and we're moving ahead with it and we'll see where it ends. I wouldn't have a guess if something is going to work out or not.
-
... flaunting their erudition and relishing overt staginess, Peter Greenaway's films divide audiences. There are those who are prepared to entertain his conceits and play the game, and others for whom a Greenaway film is about as exciting as a guided tour through an ancient museum where the catalogue has been lost.
