Quotes by Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

Continuity is boring.

Boring

Continuity

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

Chaos

Trying

Use

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I’ve no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Doubt

Editors

Keys

English culture is highly literary-based.

Culture

Every historian has a vested interest. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Decline

Empires

Fall

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.

Eye

Hands

Writing

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Cinema

Ends

Mean

Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema’s vocabulary.

Moving

Opportunity

Vocabulary

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.

Absurd

Games

Sometimes

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we’ve produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

Cinema

Imagination

Italian

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Absurd

Actors

Addict

Adventure

Age

Air

Ambition

Apology

Arrogant

Art

Artist

Atheist

Attitude

Barren

Believe

Bills

Birth

Black

Blessing

Blind

Blind Eyes

Body

Book

Boring

Cameras

Cartography

Chaos

Chapel

Character

Choices

Christian

Cinema

Clay

Continuity

Creation

Creation Of Man

Culture

Curse

Dark

Daughter

Dead Ends

Decline

Desire

Diaries

Differences

Different

Directors

Distance

Doctors

Doe

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Quotes by Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

Continuity is boring.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I’ve no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Every historian has a vested interest. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

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