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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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