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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. "
Peter Greenaway
Cinema
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Sometimes
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" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "
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" My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish. "
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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 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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" 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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