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
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.
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.
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
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.
cinema
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved 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.
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....