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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
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Newport
South Wales
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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 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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Continuity is boring.
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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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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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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 don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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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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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 think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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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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Investigation is never complete.
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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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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 share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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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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