Something from Peter Greenaway on cinema's death

Peter Greenaway always says that cinema is not for telling stories. "Its a half-dead medium wasted by taking its cues from books. Telling bedtime stories for adults.

Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are illustrated books. Not Cinema. I want to be a prime creator. As every self-regarding artist should do."

One of Peter's many wishes was that to see a cinema that is a cinema from ground-up, not a cinema that has first to find life in a book or play before it can be a film.Im most ways, I agree with Peter at this point that cinema is not for telling stories. Because it is already being done by one of the seven forms of arts. We understand that cinema comes from the mind of the directors, not from the mind of a book writer. Cinema is like a plain canvas, sitting in front of the painter, waiting to be painted of something that is not seen, but thought. Just as Pablo Picasso once said, "I paint objects by what I though, and not by what I see". The most famous painters never paint thing the way we ordinarily sees the world, but rather, to give us an insight of what we dont see. To see the other way around, or should I say, to see beyond the scope of what is given to see.