I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me. Peter Greenaway More Quotes by Peter Greenaway More Quotes From Peter Greenaway I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium. Peter Greenaway cinemaenthusiasmpeople A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. Peter Greenaway paintingintelligentmen 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. Peter Greenaway eyewritinghands My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. Peter Greenaway obsessionpeopleinteresting On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not. Peter Greenaway viewsbelievehands What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc. Peter Greenaway dramabelieveart I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. Peter Greenaway uptightmusicalnice All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own. Peter Greenaway journeyrunningmen Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words. Peter Greenaway noisywhisperingworld Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too. Peter Greenaway Investigation is never complete. Peter Greenaway investigation This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. Peter Greenaway penspaperwriting I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone. Peter Greenaway toneglasses 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. Peter Greenaway dreamdesirelooks I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory. Peter Greenaway hatementhinking We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. Peter Greenaway curseblessingknows It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up. Peter Greenaway shut-upmiserableeasy It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting. Peter Greenaway majorityinternetwriting Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary. Peter Greenaway absurdgamessometimes The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup. Peter Greenaway skinswhitethinking
