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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.
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In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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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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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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All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.
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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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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 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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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Continuity is boring.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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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 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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