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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. "

Peter Greenaway

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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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" 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. "

Peter Greenaway

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" 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. "

" I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. "

" All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil. "

" English culture is highly literary-based. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "

" 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. "

" Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" All religions have always hated females. "

" 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. "

" 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. "