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Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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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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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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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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A hand cannot write on itself.
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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
Peter Greenaway
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
Peter Greenaway
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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