Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBEis a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 April 1942
Peter Greenaway quotes about
editors keys doubt
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.
miserable shut-up easy
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.
potters film lord
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'...
narrative stories painting
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
mistake giving people
My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.
boring continuity
Continuity is boring.
scratches
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
successful games jumping
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.
cinema stones playgrounds
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.
daughter my-daughter birth
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
religious atheist responsibility
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
sight perspective suffering
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
bills viola scorsese
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
fascinated
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.