Quote

All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.

Peter Greenaway

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
Actor
Cinematographer
Experimental Artist
Film Director
Film Editor
Painter
Screenwriter
Television Director
Theatrical Director
Writer
Newport
South Wales
Trade
Male
Females
Female
Males
Journeys
Journey
Faster
Fictional
Perhaps
Fantasy
Freedoms
Half
Material
Develops
Running
Eight
Fantasies
Men
Private
Exhausting
Unexpectedly
Materials
Sexual
Replacing

More quotes by Peter Greenaway

Image
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
Peter Greenaway
Image
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
Peter Greenaway
Image
I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.
Peter Greenaway
Image
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.
Peter Greenaway
Image
A hand cannot write on itself.
Peter Greenaway
Image
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
Peter Greenaway
Image
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
Peter Greenaway
Image
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
Peter Greenaway
Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
Peter Greenaway
Image
I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
Peter Greenaway
Image
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
Peter Greenaway
Image
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
Peter Greenaway
Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
Peter Greenaway
Image
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
Peter Greenaway
Image
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.
Peter Greenaway
Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
Peter Greenaway
Image
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
Peter Greenaway
Image
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
Peter Greenaway
Image
Cinema has reached a dead end.
Peter Greenaway
Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
Peter Greenaway