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I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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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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This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
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I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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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 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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I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
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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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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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Investigation is never complete.
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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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