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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.

~Peter Greenaway

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Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

~Peter Greenaway

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

~Peter Greenaway

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I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

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I'm a Darwinian.

~Peter Greenaway

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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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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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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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I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that.

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We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.

~Peter Greenaway

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: April 5th, 1942

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