You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem … - Peter Greenaway

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You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.

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Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director.

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Alternative Names: P. Greenaway

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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

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