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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. "
Peter Greenaway
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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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" 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 admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you. "
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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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" Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' "
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" I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. "
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" I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes. "
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" I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. "
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" Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm a Darwinian. "
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" All religions have always hated females. "
Peter Greenaway
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" I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?' "
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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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" If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. "
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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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" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "
Peter Greenaway
Fascinated
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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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" We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. "
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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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