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Peter Greenaway
British
Director
Born:
Apr 5
,
1942
Always
Cinema
People
Think
World
You
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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.
Peter Greenaway
Art
Wonderful
Think
Medium
Worries
Ways
About
Exciting
Most
Learn
Always
Curious
Being
Apology
Used
Teaching
Being Used
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
Blessing
Know
Die
Going
Curse
We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
Peter Greenaway
Cinema
Need
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
Good
Valuable
Lodged
Critics
Haughty
Ten
More
Writer
Like
Maternity
Than
Ward
Barren
Mediocre
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
Peter Greenaway
Communication
Try
Everything
Visual
Visual Image
Able
Through
Push
Wants
Notion
Image
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.
Peter Greenaway
Dreams
Respect
Before
Few
Every
Think
Considered
Destroy
Giants
Must
Only
Never
Never Forget
Came
Exist
Very
Forget
Artist
Achieved
After
Which
Forms
Us
Shoulders
Standing
Who
Even
All religions have always hated females.
Peter Greenaway
All Religions
Religions
Hated
Always
Females
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
Peter Greenaway
Else
Must
Someone
Insists
Writes
Read
Diary
Anybody
Who
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
Peter Greenaway
Work
Education
Bible
Extraordinary
Books
Chapel
Out
Lays
Sistine
Early
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
Peter Greenaway
Always
Been
Fascinated
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Peter Greenaway
Age
Think
Remotely
Done
Anyone
After
Anything
Useful
Who
English culture is highly literary-based.
Peter Greenaway
Culture
Highly
English
I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
Peter Greenaway
People
Obviously
Irritate
Them
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
Peter Greenaway
Cinema
End
Means
Many
Filmmakers
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
Theatre
Intelligence
World
Cinema
Responsibility
Seen
Down
Medium
Lyric
Sole
Visual
Find
Total
Poetry
Had
Surely
Years
Text
Hands
Form
Meaning
Should
Novel
Whose
Phenomenon
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.
Peter Greenaway
Intelligence
Cinema
Try
Enough
More
Over-The-Top
Very
Than
Human
Rewarding
Little
Sentimental
Human Intelligence
Things
Bring
Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'
Peter Greenaway
Religion
You
Worry
Hey
Say
Afterlife
All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.
Peter Greenaway
Time
Technology
Immediately
Worthwhile
Becomes
Artists
Anybody
Really
Use
Who
Fossil
Creators
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
Peter Greenaway
Every
Prime
Artist
Want
Should
Creator
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.
Peter Greenaway
Success
You
Thought
Wish
Way
Critical
Logic
Finding
More
Through
Particularly
French
Contract
Biggest
Interested
Cerebral
Then
Much
Your
English
Who
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
People
Most
Understand
How
Them
Manufacture
Illiterate
Interpret
Images
We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.
Peter Greenaway
Change
Important
Looking
Seeing
More
Put
Emphasis
How
Educational
Lot
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
Memory
Remember
Try
Experiment
Summarize
Say
Plot
Casablanca
About
Pick
Disappears
Most
Narrative
Just
Cement
Famous
Movie
Sentence
Doubtful
Thing
Necessary
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
Peter Greenaway
Cinema
Increasingly
Proposition
Naive
Demands
Disbelief
Suspension
Which
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
Future
You
Cinema
Nothing
Think
Syntax
Exactly
Minutes
No Future
Vocabulary
Fed
Fed Up
Does
Up
Get
Whatsoever
Grammar
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