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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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 think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?
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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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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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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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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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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
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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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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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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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