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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
Actor
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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 share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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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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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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