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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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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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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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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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Continuity is boring.
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One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages who knows, it might have been a better book.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
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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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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
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The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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