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" I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. "
Peter Greenaway
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" Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' "
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" Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge. "
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" All religions have always hated females. "
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" If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. "
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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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" Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore. "
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" English culture is highly literary-based. "
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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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" As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. "
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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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Art
Curious
Always
" 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've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "
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Fascinated
Been
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" If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. "
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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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" Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. "
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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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" If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? "
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" All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil. "
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" We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding. "
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" Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be. "
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" I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. "
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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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" For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. "
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