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What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.

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Peter Greenaway's Popular Quotes

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

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

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

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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…

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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

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Itch to read, scratch to understand.

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

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Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

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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 w…

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