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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.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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Continuity is boring.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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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