Peter Greenaway Quotes - Page 5

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• It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

  Peter Greenaway

  Empathy, Cinema, Manipulation

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• I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  World, Moments, Hours

  Interview in Page, May 1999.

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• That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Massage, Film

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Cinema, Film

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, White, Skins

  "Fictional character: Philip Emmenthal". 8 1/2 Women, 1999.

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• My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Interesting, Obsession

  Film Comment Interview, May/June 1990.

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• You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

  Peter Greenaway

  Play, Lacrosse, World

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Thinking, Use

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

  Peter Greenaway

  Birth, Welsh

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

  Peter Greenaway

  Fall, Thinking, Encyclopedia

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• I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Cinema, Enthusiasm

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Attitude, Ambition, Character

  "Watching Water". Catalogue of the Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 1993.

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• I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

  Peter Greenaway

  Lying, Believe, Differences

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• There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Character, Men

  "Fear Of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• 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.

  Peter Greenaway

  Paris, Memorial, Stones

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• Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• 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

  Games, Sometimes, Absurd

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• I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Feet, Dying

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• It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

  Peter Greenaway

  Purpose, Serving

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Stones, Playgrounds

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• All religions have always hated females.

  Peter Greenaway

  Female, Hated

  "Peter Greenaway's pact with death" by Catherine Shoard, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing, Diaries

  " Peter Greenaway's pact with death" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

  Peter Greenaway

  Fascinated

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

  Peter Greenaway

  Book, Chapel, Extraordinary

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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