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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
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Experimental Artist
Film Director
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Television Director
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Newport
South Wales
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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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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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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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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
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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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