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
scratches
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
sex men thinking
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
ideas people renoir
Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
interesting people obsession
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
play lacrosse world
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
birth welsh
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
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.
emotional thinking doctors
I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.
world whispering noisy
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
information population excess
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
purpose serving
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
strange unusual share
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
reality needs unreality
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
cinema stones playgrounds
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.