Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarmanwas an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 January 1942
cinema
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
cinema stories lasts
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema....
pain taken dying
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
sex sea law
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
blue rose wavelength
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.
cannot taken
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
preserve pursuit
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
decide frightened homosexual love terms word
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.