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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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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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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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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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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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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 got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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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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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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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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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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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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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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