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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
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Newport
South Wales
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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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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Continuity is boring.
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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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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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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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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
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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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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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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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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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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages who knows, it might have been a better book.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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