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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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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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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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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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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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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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Continuity is boring.
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One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages who knows, it might have been a better book.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
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