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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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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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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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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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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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English culture is highly literary-based.
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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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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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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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There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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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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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
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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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