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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.

Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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