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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
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Newport
South Wales
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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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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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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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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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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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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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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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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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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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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