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
fall thinking encyclopedia
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.
eye blind blind-eyes
Blind eyes cannot read.
historian good-writers
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
war book hero
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.
eye feet long
I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women -- you know -- long-suffering, dutiful -- but all right in the end -- a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.
moving fire air
Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.
liars historian knows
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
names clay creation
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
gay pessimist used
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
past historian knows
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
writing majority internet
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
miserable shut-up easy
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.
art drama believe
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.
cinema earth umbilical-cord
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?