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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.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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