“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.” TwoTogetherCertainLiteratureEnjoyFortuneDelightFleshTwo ThingsQuantityThings In LifeGood FortuneDependable Author:Peter Greenaway
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.” TwoHandsSeemsEyeBehindsRevolutionOrdinaryFilmmakerExtrasTragicTiedTwo HandsHands Tied Author:Peter Greenaway
“An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.” IfsTwoMightFilmThreeWatchesNew YorkThirdsCriticsListsLike MeFascinatingComplimentTelephonesThree TimesHomageVermeer Author:Peter Greenaway
“Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsI CanTwoImportantIdeasBodySeemsArtistFiguresPaintingPersonalityThousandShapesStructureCinemaSheerThousand YearsJuiceHeaviness Author:Peter Greenaway
“Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.” FeelsWritingKindMayTwoDifferentHandsEyeTogetherFilmBehindsRichDisciplineExtraordinaryHandleMediumsAll KindsOperationsFilmmakerTiedCombiningTwo HandsHands TiedMusic Writing Author:Peter Greenaway
“My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?” FirstsTwoChristianNamesParentRocksSignificantPeterTwelveApostlesBourgeoisMineralsUraniumHedging Author:Peter Greenaway
“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.” TwoMatterCultureSexAbilitySubjectsWesternManipulateSubject MatterWestern CultureSex And Death Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews
