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
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.
sex two culture
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
way cinema favourite
My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.
bills viola scorsese
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
proof spoil
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
fascinated
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
book chapel lays
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
blessing curse dies
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
dream desire world
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
writing paper pens
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
long cinema
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
female hated
All religions have always hated females.
writing diaries
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
personality body firsts
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.