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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 Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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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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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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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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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 am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
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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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Investigation is never complete.
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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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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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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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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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