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
maps three where-you-are
I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.
historian good-writers
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
friday men years
I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.
where-you-come kind addict
What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
friday art school
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
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.
scratches
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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.
fascinated
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.