Peter Greenaway
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"Peter Greenaway", Order of the British Empire/CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance painting/Renaissance and Baroque painting/Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.

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I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

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These days more films are going to people than people are going to films.

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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.

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My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.

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_Prospero's Books_ is the _Terminator 2_ for intellectuals.

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You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry - it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.

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