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1. "Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else." ~ Peter Greenaway
2. "As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward." ~ Peter Greenaway
3. "Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward." ~ Peter Greenaway
4. "English culture is highly literary-based." ~ Peter Greenaway
5. "For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end." ~ Peter Greenaway
6. "I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them." ~ Peter Greenaway
7. "If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker." ~ Peter Greenaway
8. "The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible." ~ Peter Greenaway
9. "I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory." ~ Peter Greenaway
10. "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
11. "I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author." ~ Peter Greenaway

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."
Author: Charles Olson

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