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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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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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All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.
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I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.
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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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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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