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“No -- that's true. But it's an anniversary I shall always celebrate I shall always celebrate even if you won't. And you won't.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in The Guardian, 26 Oct 1998
Interviews

“I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews

“French Cuisine. By Guillaume Rosart. Publisher Henri Simonel. In 1950 it cost me twenty francs -- about 2 pounds -- about 15 pounds now.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“Too late. Too late to retreat. Your heart is open. The book has got you. Your body is wide open. This rat of a book has invaded your privacy, worried its feeling into your entrails by every private passage.”

Peter Greenaway

From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book

“There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.”

Peter Greenaway

From the introduction to 8 1/2 Women
8 1/2 Women

“Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.”

Peter Greenaway

From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"
The Pillow Book

“The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it -- and I do -- and subtle -- beige, pink, white, tan, taupe, …”

Peter Greenaway

Philip
8 1/2 Women

“Shoes: gloves for the feet.”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Sight and Sound, Summer 1987
Interviews

“The world is in his cloak -- figures peer out of its folds -- mythological figures and snakes and pigs and flowers, naked fauns and heavy-breasted sirens and horses' heads -- they sprawl on the flagstones at his feet and peep out from under his arms…”

Peter Greenaway

Prospero's Books

“I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a "message", but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.”

Peter Greenaway

From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49
Interviews

“This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch.”

Peter Greenaway

From the sixth book, "The Book of the Lover"
The Pillow Book

“A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down -- so their legs are entirely mysterious -- they could have one leg or two inside that dress… A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.”

Peter Greenaway

8 1/2 Women

“That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Die Zeit, 24 Nov 1989
Interviews

“The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness.”

Peter Greenaway

A Zed and Two Noughts

“Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate.”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue.”

Peter Greenaway

Flying Out of This World

“Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Die Zeit, 24 Nov 1989
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover