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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.

~Peter Greenaway

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English culture is highly literary-based.

~Peter Greenaway

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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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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 don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

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

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We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: April 5th, 1942

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