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
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.
cinema
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
cinema stories lasts
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema....
pain taken dying
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
sex sea law
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
blue rose wavelength
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.