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Peter Greenaway Quote
 | Source/Notes: Jerome, to Nagiko - The Pillow Book |
| “There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.” ―Peter Greenaway Source/Notes: In an interview in Cineaste, 1991 - Interviews |
| “I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.” ―Peter Greenaway Source/Notes: From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49 - Interviews |
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Peter Greenaway
Born: April 5, 1942 (age 76)
Nationality: British
Occupation: Director, writer, painter
Bio: Peter Greenaway is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. The scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death are common traits in his films.
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