Peter Greenaway Quotes - Page 6

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• Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

  Peter Greenaway

  "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.

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• It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

  Peter Greenaway

  Shut Up, Miserable, Easy

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Gay, Pessimist, Used

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

  Peter Greenaway

  Names, Clay, Creation

  Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• 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

  Cameras, Directors, Firsts

  Zoetrope All-Story, Volume 5, No. 1., Spring 2001.

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• Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

  Peter Greenaway

  Expression, Needs, Painting

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

  Peter Greenaway

  Keys, Editors, Doubt

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

  Peter Greenaway

  Guy, Want, Trouble

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Strange, Vain

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• 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

  Friday, Art, School

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

  Peter Greenaway

  Sex, Fans, Way

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Sex, Choices

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

  Peter Greenaway

  Liars, Historian, Good Writers

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

  Peter Greenaway

  Historian, Good Writers

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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