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Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.
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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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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
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