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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
Film Director
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Painter
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Television Director
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Newport
South Wales
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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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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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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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Continuity is boring.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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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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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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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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The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
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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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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
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