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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
Actor
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Film Director
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Newport
South Wales
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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 don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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Continuity is boring.
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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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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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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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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 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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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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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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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 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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Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?
Peter Greenaway
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages who knows, it might have been a better book.
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