"Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life."

-- Peter Greenaway

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“The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.”
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.”
“Everyone knows the game is about the players.”
“For makeup, a bit of blusher â€” what you call bronzer â€” a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.”
“As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.”
“How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?”

Source : Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press
“If you focus on the problem, you canâ€™t see the solution.Â Never focus on the problem.”
“The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

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