I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation … - Peter Greenaway

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Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

Peter Greenaway

I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

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