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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 have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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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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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.
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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 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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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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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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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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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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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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Continuity is boring.
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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
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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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