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Peter Greenaway Inspirational Quotes (72)

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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
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Continuity is boring.
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I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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