Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarmanwas an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 January 1942
christian men years
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.
color spices red
Painters used red like spice
fashion scripts handbags
If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.
dying ostracism morphine
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
queens cities good-man
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
sea lgbt-pride lgbt-community
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...
white want fluffy
I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies
yellow cows made
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.
flower past civilization
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.
wish rotten receiving
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
people documentaries film
People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
men odd purity
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
red claims stakes
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
sight secret world
On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.