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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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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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