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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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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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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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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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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Investigation is never complete.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
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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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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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