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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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Investigation is never complete.
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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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 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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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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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Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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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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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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A hand cannot write on itself.
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