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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.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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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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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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.
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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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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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Continuity is boring.
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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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