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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.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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