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A hand cannot write on itself.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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Newport
South Wales
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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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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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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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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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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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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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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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