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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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Newport
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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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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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Continuity is boring.
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