Best quotes by Peter Greenaway on Cinema
Checkout quotes by Peter Greenaway on Cinema
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‟ We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
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‟ I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'
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‟ I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.
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‟ Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.
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‟ Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
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‟ I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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‟ For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
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‟ We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.
- Peter Greenaway
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‟ If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
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‟ Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
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‟ It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.
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‟ I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes.
- Peter Greenaway