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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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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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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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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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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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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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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
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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 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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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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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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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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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