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“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

Peter Greenaway

Philip
8 1/2 Women

“To a man of honour that is no choice.”

Peter Greenaway

Philip and Kito
8 1/2 Women

“There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Cineaste, 1991
Interviews

“Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.”

Peter Greenaway

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.”

Peter Greenaway

Drowning By Numbers

“Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.”

Peter Greenaway

, quoted in Peter Greenaway's The
The Pillow Book

“I married. I became a wife. I acquired a husband. I had a ceremonial wedding in style. Whichever way you say it -- it was bound to end badly.”

Peter Greenaway

Nagiko's journal for Feb 12 1990
The Pillow Book

“Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -- a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression -- arriving at a finish of two digits -- a goal attained, a dénouement reached.”

Peter Greenaway

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry -- it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“What is your favorite book?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities -- Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.”

Peter Greenaway

8 1/2 Women

“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“She picks up the baby and contemplates the Bonsai-bush, and, as we watch, in the growing half-dark, the Bonsai-bush flowers. On the black-and-white film, the thousands of flower-petals blush a deep red.”

Peter Greenaway

Conclusion of the published script.
The Pillow Book

“Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word "simony" to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.”

Peter Greenaway

Flying Out of This World

“Are these clues? Which ones are important? Which ones are incidental? Which ones are circumstantial?”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“What else could there be?”

Peter Greenaway

The Belly of An Architect

“He spoilt it -- he spoke.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“ "It was only a film."”

Peter Greenaway

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

“How safe are we here?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“Does Albert read?”

Peter Greenaway

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