"Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does."

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There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art.

— Peter Greenaway