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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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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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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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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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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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A hand cannot write on itself.
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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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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
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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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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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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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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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