Peter Greenaway Quotes

• I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

  Peter Greenaway

  Arrogant, Film

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• I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Should, Sincerely

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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.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Thinking, Space

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Siempre me han fascinado los mapas y la cartografía. Un mapa te dice dónde has estado, dónde estás y adónde vas; en cierto sentido, son tres tiempos en uno.

  Peter Greenaway

  Three, Maps, Cartography

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Cinema

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• Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Works Of Art, Finished

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• El cine es un medio demasiado rico y capaz para dejarlo simplemente en manos de los narradores.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Rich, Mediums

  "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.

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• We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

  Peter Greenaway

  Reality, Needs, Unreality

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• Itch to read, scratch to understand.

  Peter Greenaway

  Arañazos

  "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.

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• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Trying, Use, Chaos

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stories, Want, Filmmaker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Los estadounidenses no entienden lo que es la metáfora en el cine. Son extremadamente buenos haciendo películas narrativas lineales y directas, que entretienen estupendamente. Pero rara vez hacen otra cosa.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Narrative, Metaphor

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, Mean, Black

  Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Too many proofs spoil the truth.

  Peter Greenaway

  Proof, Spoil

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• I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dark, Emotional, Cinema

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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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.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Desire, Looks

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

  Peter Greenaway

  Error, Gente, Dar

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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, Teaching, Apology

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

  Peter Greenaway

  Humble, Men, Creation Of Man

  "Fear of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• Sólo el cine reduce su preocupación a su contenido, es decir, a su historia. En cambio, debería ocuparse de su forma, de su estructura.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Stories, Structure

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

  Peter Greenaway

  Umbilical Cord, Cinema, Earth

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

  Peter Greenaway

  Religious, Atheist, Responsibility

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.

  Peter Greenaway

  Friday, Men, Years

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• A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

  Peter Greenaway

  Intelligent, Men, Painting

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• The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stories, Narrative, Painting

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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