Peter Webber Quotes

• Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

  Peter Webber

  World

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

  Peter Webber

  People, Looks, Painting

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

  Peter Webber

  Keys, Oysters, World

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

  Peter Webber

  Art, Icons, Zeppelins

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

  Peter Webber

  Obscurity, Tvs, Relative

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

  Peter Webber

  People, Pieces, Exciting

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

  Peter Webber

  Years, Firsts, Stamps

  "Girl with a Pearl Earring: A profile of the film". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

  Peter Webber

  Drama, Men, Males

  "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.

  Peter Webber

  Strong, Memories, Real

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

  Peter Webber

  Want, Scripts, Kind

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

  Peter Webber

  Hamburgers, Awful, Saws

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

  Peter Webber

  Want, Compromise, Made

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

  Peter Webber

  Cutting, Mtv, Different

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

  Peter Webber

  Sometimes, Traps

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I don't want people to pigeonhole me.

  Peter Webber

  People, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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