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Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
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Film Director
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South Wales
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There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
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I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.
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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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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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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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