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Pete Way Inspirational Quotes (74)

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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
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I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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Investigation is never complete.
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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
Peter Greenaway
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