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
proof spoil
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
bills viola scorsese
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
world whispering noisy
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
purpose serving
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
thinking years cinema
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
information population excess
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
thinking feet dying
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
daughter my-daughter birth
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
religious atheist responsibility
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
paris memorial stones
I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.
birth welsh
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
art thinking use
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
play lacrosse world
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
interesting people obsession
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.