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“Are animals like car-crashes -- Acts of God or mere Accidents -- bizarre, tragic, farcical, plotted nowadays into a scenario by an ingenious storyteller, Mr C Darwin?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

Peter Greenaway

Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book

“Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks…”

Peter Greenaway

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

“Taupe? What sort of colour is "taupe"? It sounds like a Malaysian ground sloth encountered once every fifty years by one of the Attenboroughs wearing long socks.”

Peter Greenaway

Storey
8 1/2 Women

“The predominant colour of the kitchen -- its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves -- with all the ancillary rooms -- pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green -- Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile -- like the colours of a dark wet jungle.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“It is a most unexpected Earthquake in Geneva.”

Peter Greenaway

Final line of the published script.
8 1/2 Women

“It seems to me that the comprehension and enjoyment of the reader, as opposed to the viewer, is best served in printing this version rather than a slavish definitive transcription. Besides, what film is truly definitive? By the time you see the film it may very well be sub-titled, re-edited, shortened, even censored, and every film is viewed at the discretion of the projectionist, the cinema manager, the architect of the cinema, the comfort of your seat and the attention of your neighbour.”

Peter Greenaway

From the Author's Note to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts

“This book and I have become indivisible. I have placed my feet on this book's last pages, confident of standing so much higher in the world than I ever stood before.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“A final splash plops … all water-movement ceases and the screen is a black velvet void.”

Peter Greenaway

Final words of the published script.
Prospero's Books

“All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?”

Peter Greenaway

Philip
8 1/2 Women

“Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“Have you read all of them?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“No Albert -- it's not God -- it's Michael. My lover. You vowed you would kill him -- and you did. And you vowed you would eat him. Now eat him.”

Peter Greenaway

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

“The floorboards point in parallel lines to a vanishing point that does not concern us -- somewhere beyond the opera house, across the streets, across the houses of the suburbs, all the way to a hypothetical single dot… on the sea's horizon. Far from this sour drama.”

Peter Greenaway

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.”

Peter Greenaway

From the third book, "The Book of the Idiot"
The Pillow Book

“There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction -- all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.”

Peter Greenaway

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“Titus… he started well… soon became greedy… disembowelled on the Tiber steps… he's dead, died screaming…”

Peter Greenaway

The Belly of An Architect

“Jerome never liked me -- preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature -- all swear-words and scatology -- before it became fashionable.”

Peter Greenaway

Jerome's mother
The Pillow Book

“Rubbish -- absolute rubbish!”

Peter Greenaway

Storey and Philip
8 1/2 Women

“Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.”

Peter Greenaway

From the fifth book, "The Book of the Exhibitionist"
The Pillow Book