It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too. - Peter Greenaway
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
- Peter Greenaway
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. - Peter Greenaway
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. - Peter Greenaway
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre… - Peter Greenaway
I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre…
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. - Peter Greenaway
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
Itch to read, scratch to understand. - Peter Greenaway
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. - Peter Greenaway
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
Works of art are never finished, just stopped. - Peter Greenaway
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
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 w… - Peter Greenaway
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 w…
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