Peter Greenaway Quotes
born 1942 Wales
Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director.
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Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it -- and I do -- and subtle -- beige, pink, white, tan, taupe, ...
No Albert -- it's not God -- it's Michael. My lover. You vowed you would kill him -- and you did. And you vowed you would eat him. Now eat him.
"Two lifetimes -- yours and mine."
"That sounds like a disadvantage."
"I can -- your mother's dead."
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
Nun 2: (Very quietly) Sir, be grateful for the music. Most of us die in silence.
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness.
Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.
"You have no right to be jealous of a woman who wants to be more of a woman by watching a man dressed up as a woman."
"I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour."
"I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed."
"… and within five minutes I'd lost interest."
Dawns and sunsets. The Magic Hour -- when the sun and the moon can be in the sky at the same time -- a magic and disturbing occurrence for a child. And for an adult.