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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
Actor
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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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It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
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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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A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
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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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Investigation is never complete.
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In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
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If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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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 Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
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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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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
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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 live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
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Cinema has reached a dead end.
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