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Peter Greenaway Quotes

born 1942 Wales

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

Wales
Film directors

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It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.

"No -- but I have a feeling your mother was."

"Imagine a world without a fixed point."

If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.

"Perhaps. I need writing. Don't ask me why -- just take out your pen and write your name on my arm -- go on."

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions.
only more so, much more so.

"Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke."

"I was completely absorbed as to what would happen because anything was possible."

"Then I think you have a choice -- please your mother or face criminal charges."

"Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman."

"Now you've opened your mouth, do you expect me to lose interest?"

This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.

How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?

"What do you mean -- Happy anniversary? It's not my birthday."

It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late.

"Money's not interesting -- too easy to get hold of."

"I wouldn't be so interested in her fingers."

"You could spend a lifetime reading in here."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Greenaway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.