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Peter Greenaway is a British film director known for his unique artistic style and innovative narrative techniques. His films often incorporate historical, cultural, and philosophical elements, challenging viewers to think deeply.

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Famous Peter Greenaway Quotes

“Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.”

World Whispering Noisy

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

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Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

“I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.”

Knows World Play Lacrosse

Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews

“I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“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.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“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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Author:Peter Greenaway

About the Author

Born: April 5, 1942
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 139

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Peter Greenaway: InterviewsRelated source material

Eight and a half womenRelated source material

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