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" Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' "
Peter Greenaway
You
Religion
Say
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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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New Things
Space
" Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. "
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Visual
Push
Image
" 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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Know
" I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you. "
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Just
Love
" I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. "
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Creator
Prime
Artist
" 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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Cinema
Think
Sometimes
" I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. "
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Who
Anything
Useful
" I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. "
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Obviously
Irritate
Them
" All religions have always hated females. "
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Always
All Religions
Hated
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
Knowledge
Internet
Facts
" We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. "
Peter Greenaway
Die
Curse
Blessing
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
You
Famous
Memory
" We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. "
Peter Greenaway
Seeing
More
Looking
" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "
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Fascinated
Been
Always
" Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. "
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How
Most
Understand
" English culture is highly literary-based. "
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English
Culture
Highly
" 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 Am
Think
Death
" 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
Ideas
Doing
Me
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
Looking
Need
Wonder
" 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?' "
Peter Greenaway
Doing
Cinema
Always
" I'm a Darwinian. "
Peter Greenaway
Darwinian
" For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. "
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End
Many
Means
" I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. "
Peter Greenaway
Painting
Want
Think
" 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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You
Now
Process
" All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil. "
Peter Greenaway
Time
Technology
Artists
" 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
More
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
Intelligence
Responsibility
Poetry
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
Art
Curious
Always
" 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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World
You
Look
" 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. "
Peter Greenaway
You
Cinema
Future