Robert Greene Quotes - Page 12

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• When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

  Robert Greene

  Documentaries, Inspired, Moments

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I think what happened with Brandy [Burre]is what happens with a lot of people. You make these decisions for comfort and stability, and then eventually those same things that are comforting and stable end up putting walls around you that you didn't expect.

  Robert Greene

  Wall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

  Robert Greene

  Running, Play, Long

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

  Robert Greene

  Mind, Crowns, Kingdoms

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.309

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• Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

  Robert Greene

  Time, Balance, Proud

  'Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay' (1594) act 3, sc. 1

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• Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema, which is a great space but isn't necessarily the most well attended for a week-long screening.

  Robert Greene

  Running, New York, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

  Robert Greene

  Play, Goal, Actresses

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.

  Robert Greene

  Couple, Dollars, Lucky

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

  Robert Greene

  Documentaries, Way, Kind

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

  Robert Greene

  Way, Critics, Behave

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

  Robert Greene

  Jealousy, Sweet, Love Is

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311

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• Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

  Robert Greene

  Horse, Beggar, Beggary

  Robert Greene (1883). “The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene ...”

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

  Robert Greene

  Creative, Endeavor, Uncertain

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2014

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• Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

  Robert Greene

  Sovereign, Would Be, Thorns

  Robert Greene, “Fawnia”

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• Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

  Robert Greene

  Time, Heart, Taste

  c.1589 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (published 1594), sc.16.

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• Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!

  Robert Greene

  Men, Joy, Fading

  Robert Greene (1977). “The poetry of Robert Greene”

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• On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

  Robert Greene

  Wise, Art, Eye

  Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems”, p.304

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• No greater mischief could be wrought
  Than love united to a jealous thought.

  Robert Greene

  Jealousy, Mischief, United

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311

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• In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

  Robert Greene

  Careers, Attention, Want

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

  Robert Greene

  Fashion, Kings, Royal

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• We're close friends [with Brandy Burre]. We're neighbors. I actually lived two houses over from her for a while and then we were traveling one day and she was looking at the house we currently live in - which was between us - and she's like, "You guys should move here! It's bigger and better!"

  Robert Greene

  Moving, Two, House

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

  Robert Greene

  Ecosystems, Diversity, Maximum

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• My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Perception, Wish

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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