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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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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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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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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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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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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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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
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What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.
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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 got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
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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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English culture is highly literary-based.
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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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