British - Director | April 5, 1942 -
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.
Peter Greenaway
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I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
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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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I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
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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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English culture is highly literary-based.
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I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
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I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.
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I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'
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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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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
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