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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
Film Director
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Television Director
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Newport
South Wales
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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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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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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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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 don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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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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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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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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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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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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