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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
Film Director
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Television Director
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Newport
South Wales
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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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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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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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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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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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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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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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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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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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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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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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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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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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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