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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
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Newport
South Wales
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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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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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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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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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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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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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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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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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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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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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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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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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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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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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