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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.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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A hand cannot write on itself.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
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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 got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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