"I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms."

-- Peter Greenaway

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“I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.”
“It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.”
“All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.”
“It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.”

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“What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.”
“Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous." (J.R. on writing the BDB series)”
“When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.”
“But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.”

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