Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBEis a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 April 1942
fascinated
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
writing diaries
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
personality body firsts
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
investigation
Investigation is never complete.
mean cinema ends
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
writing paper pens
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
glasses tone
I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone.
love-you people
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
thinking age done
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
believe cinema conventions
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
dream desire world
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
thinking self purpose
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?
hate men thinking
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.