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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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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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In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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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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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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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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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Investigation is never complete.
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