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I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
— Jason J. Greenaway
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
— Peter Greenaway
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
— Peter Greenaway
Investigation is never complete.
— Peter Greenaway
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
— Peter Greenaway
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
— Peter Greenaway
Great is our calling, We dare not be idle.
The saddle is in place,
And Jesus is bridle. — Kari L. Greenaway
So put your stubbornness to rest,Yes, open up your eyes.
No big bang has ever happened,
Was God brought us to life. — Kari L. Greenaway
Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?
N' blame our lives,
On him, her, I? — Kari L. Greenaway
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
— Peter Greenaway
Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.
— Kate Greenaway
He stretches forth in our soul, Teaches our arms how to reach.
Our feet He has shod,
With His gospel of peace. — Kari L. Greenaway
What are you some kind of addict? Is this where you come to ... — Peter Greenaway
For many things were shown,Recorded and written down.
But what is God to do,
When His Word you do renounce? — Kari L. Greenaway
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
— Peter Greenaway
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
— Kate Greenaway
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
— Peter Greenaway
Sometimes a person can be more traumatized than he knows.
— R.M. Greenaway
All religions have always hated females.
— Peter Greenaway
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
— Peter Greenaway
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
— Peter Greenaway
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
— Peter Greenaway
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
— Peter Greenaway
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
— Peter Greenaway
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
— Peter Greenaway
I like a lot of glasses about it highers the tone. — Peter Greenaway
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.' ...
— Peter Greenaway
There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
— Peter Greenaway
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
— Peter Greenaway
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
— Peter Greenaway
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
— Peter Greenaway
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.
— Peter Greenaway
For joy alone, Carries a fountain of youth.
Laughter's music,
Will wrinkle smooth.
- Poem Fountain of Youth — Kari L. Greenaway
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it and I do
and subtle
beige, pink, white, tan, taup ... — Peter Greenaway
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
— Peter Greenaway
How different everything is when you are with the right people!
— Kate Greenaway
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options ...
— Peter Greenaway
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
— Alan Parker
His changes are true, And oh for a reason.
His work is eternal,
And arrives in due season. — Kari L. Greenaway
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
— Peter Greenaway
Oh blessed assurance,Come down, make home with us.
Our hope is high for whats in store,
Come move these feet towards Love. — Kari L. Greenaway
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
— Peter Greenaway
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
— Peter Greenaway
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative either intellectually or viscerally
in the films one makes. — Peter Greenaway
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
— Peter Greenaway
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
— Peter Greenaway
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
— Peter Greenaway
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
— Peter Greenaway
English culture is highly literary-based.
— Peter Greenaway
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
— Peter Greenaway
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic I'll shut up. — Peter Greenaway
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
— Peter Greenaway
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
— Peter Greenaway
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
— Peter Greenaway
Cinema has reached a dead end.
— Peter Greenaway
Marjoram ... Blushes.
— Kate Greenaway
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
— Peter Greenaway
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
— Peter Greenaway
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
— Peter Greenaway
Continuity is boring.
— Peter Greenaway
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
— Peter Greenaway
Excerpt From the Poem-" Prayer"Such a pleasant,
And heartfelt task.
To him implore,
And mercies ask. — Kari L. Greenaway
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
— Peter Greenaway
To whom are you for? Is a good question to ask.
For one way sows to life,
The other to evil basks. — Kari L. Greenaway
Blind eyes cannot read.
— Peter Greenaway
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
— Peter Greenaway
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
— Peter Greenaway
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
— Peter Greenaway
Moments cast rivulets, Others eyes see.
Faith awaits,
From a once dormant state,
Inside you, inside me. — Kari L. Greenaway
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
— Peter Greenaway
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
— Peter Greenaway
A hand cannot write on itself.
— Peter Greenaway
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
— Peter Greenaway
I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.
— Peter Greenaway
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
— Peter Greenaway
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
— Peter Greenaway
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
— Peter Greenaway