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“Delivery: A postal or natal event.”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”

Peter Greenaway

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime -- you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough.”

Peter Greenaway

From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book

“Cosimo: It is only a play… with music? Does God say the same at every death? It is only a play… with music? When I die, will someone say the same? He was only a prince. He died. It was only a play… with music.”

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The Baby of Mâcon

“Money's not interesting -- too easy to get hold of.”

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8 1/2 Women

“Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in the Washington DC City Paper, 6 Apr 1990
Interviews

“No. If you don't read, are you safe?”

Peter Greenaway

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

“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!”

Peter Greenaway

On John Cage's Indeterminacy, from an interview in Art and Design, no. 49
Interviews

“The letters Z, O and O dominate the front entrance gates of a capital city zoo. They are made of glass and they tower up two giraffes high. They are the width of one elephant and the colour of bottled blue ink.”

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A Zed and Two Noughts

“Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Zoom, 16 Nov 1988
Interviews

“Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?”

Peter Greenaway

"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text

“Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play… with music. Do not distress yourself.”

Peter Greenaway

The Baby of Mâcon

“No -- but I have a feeling your mother was.”

Peter Greenaway

Philip and Storey
8 1/2 Women

“A little gold and a little charcoal, / A little bone, a little wax. / A little alcohol, a little horror and a little gum. / A little ivory, / a little sulphur, / a little damp dust, / a sluice of fluids.”

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"The Vesalius Song"
M is for Man, Music, and Mozart

“Outside in the garden, the greenhouse collapses. Masonry crashes from the roof and splashes into the moat. The grave-marker for the pig Hortense moves up out of the ground. The Maillol statue stands firm as the shrubs around it quiver. A water-main bursts in the yard sending a shower into the air. Trees fall as though whipped down to the ground. The water on the lake shimmers and ripples like a film run backwards.”

Peter Greenaway

Penultimate paragraph of the published script.
8 1/2 Women

“Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.”

Peter Greenaway

From the introduction to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts

“Later this device of mirror and mirror-carriers will be developed and many changes rung from its possibilities.”

Peter Greenaway

Prospero's Books

“You have no right to be jealous of a woman who wants to be more of a woman by watching a man dressed up as a woman.”

Peter Greenaway

8 1/2 Women

“It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth -- a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but -- as the pages turn -- terrible in their frankness…”

Peter Greenaway

Prospero's Books