Peter Greenaway Quotes
born 1942 Wales
Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director.
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All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?
Isn't that why people keep diaries -- to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.
The moistened thumb of the expectant reader has not yet marked the soft tissues of this lean clean smiling volume. Spread me, and break me open, for pleasure.
And I've also written a play called Miranda, about what happens afterwards on the ship on the way home. It's about what happens to innocence and how it has to be destroyed.
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet
incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
A final splash plops … all water-movement ceases and the screen is a black velvet void.
The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain...
I don't know what to say really -- except that you look immortal and I look bereft.
Men are so shit scared of female activities, especially if they are clandestine.
Prospero has always felt most at ease in a study, surrounded by books.
It is a most unexpected Earthquake in Geneva.
"No we mustn't! She'll have us all audited."
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
A hand cannot write on itself.
Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
Later this device of mirror and mirror-carriers will be developed and many changes rung from its possibilities.
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.