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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. "

Peter Greenaway

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Death

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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. "

" I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. "

" I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. "

" We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. "

" If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? "

" We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. "

Peter Greenaway

Seeing

Looking

" I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you. "

" I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. "

" Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. "

" 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. "

" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. "

" For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" English culture is highly literary-based. "

" 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. "

" The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. "

" Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. "

" All religions have always hated females. "

" I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge. "

" Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers. "

" As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. "

Peter Greenaway

Critics

Than

" Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. "