Peter Greenaway Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, People, Giving

• I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, Men, Years

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

• 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.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, Mean, Black

  Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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