There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art.
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'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.
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.
Itch to read, scratch to understand. - Peter Greenaway
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
Works of art are never finished, just stopped. - Peter Greenaway
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. - Peter Greenaway
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
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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