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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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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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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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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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All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.
Peter Greenaway
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
Peter Greenaway
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
Peter Greenaway
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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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
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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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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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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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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
Peter Greenaway
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
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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.
Peter Greenaway
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
Peter Greenaway
English culture is highly literary-based.
Peter Greenaway
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.
Peter Greenaway
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
Peter Greenaway
