Derek Jarman Professions : Film director Born : January 31, 1942 Died : February 19, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Derek Jarman Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. Derek Jarman gay rights sex Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. Derek Jarman wavelength rose blue The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema. Derek Jarman cinema stories sound I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. Derek Jarman pain taken death Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum. Derek Jarman stakes red claims One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas. Derek Jarman flower civilization past All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. Derek Jarman hopeless odd men Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! Derek Jarman cinema On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal. Derek Jarman target secret sight Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour. Derek Jarman cows made yellow The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals. Derek Jarman epidemics christian men People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries. Derek Jarman documentaries film people I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies Derek Jarman white want world The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything. Derek Jarman good-man queens cities If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them. Derek Jarman handbags scripts fashion I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. Derek Jarman rotten receiving wish Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Derek Jarman lgbt-community lgbt-pride sea I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Derek Jarman ostracism morphine dying Painters used red like spice Derek Jarman spices red color I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary. Derek Jarman receiving eye wish Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors
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