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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
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South Wales
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
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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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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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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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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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I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
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