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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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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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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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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.
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Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
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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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Investigation is never complete.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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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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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
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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 am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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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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