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" For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. "
Peter Greenaway
End
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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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" For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon. "
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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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" Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms. "
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" English culture is highly literary-based. "
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" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "
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" We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. "
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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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" I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that. "
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" I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. "
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" If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? "
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" All religions have always hated females. "
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" It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport. "
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" I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge. "
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" Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' "
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" I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium. "
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" Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory. "
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" Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. "
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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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