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Peter Greenaway

There is no obligation for th...

There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

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Peter Greenaway

One of my heroes, almost nece...

One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

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Peter Greenaway

Cinema has reached a dead end...

Cinema has reached a dead end.

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Peter Greenaway

The start of a film is like a...

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

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Peter Greenaway

Cinema is not a playground fo...

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

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Peter Greenaway

Human relationships are patte...

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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Peter Greenaway

I imagine if you had built th...

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.

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Peter Greenaway

We live in a time of excess -...

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

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Peter Greenaway

I am certain that there are t...

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

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Peter Greenaway

There is visual illiteracy wi...

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

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Peter Greenaway

A really intelligent man make...

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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Peter Greenaway

I don't want to be a film-mak...

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind - let's give up this silly business of film-making and concentrate on something more satisfying and worthwhile.

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Peter Greenaway

My heroes among filmmakers wo...

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Bu?uel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

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Peter Greenaway

To be an atheist you have to ...

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

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Peter Greenaway

Only cinema narrows its conce...

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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Peter Greenaway

My favourite film-maker west ...

My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

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Peter Greenaway

There are basically only two ...

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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Peter Greenaway

Cinema is far too rich and ca...

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

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Peter Greenaway

I loved Latin -- the grammar,...

I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

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Peter Greenaway

I never go to the cinema. I c...

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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