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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
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I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
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Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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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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English culture is highly literary-based.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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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.
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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
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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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