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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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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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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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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
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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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Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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?
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