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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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 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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Continuity is boring.
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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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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
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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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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 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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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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 don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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