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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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Investigation is never complete.
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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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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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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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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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A hand cannot write on itself.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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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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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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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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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 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 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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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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 admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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