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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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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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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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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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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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Continuity is boring.
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I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.
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