Peter Greenaway: Making

Peter Greenaway is British film director. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“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

“I've just been reading -- stuff to make your hair curl -- you go in that toilet -- that's the sort of stuff people read -- not this sort of thing -- don't you feel out of touch? Does this stuff make money? I bet you're the only person to have read this book -- but I bet you every man in this restaurant has had a read of that stuff in there… makes you think, doesn't it?”

Peter Greenaway

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

“One [film] is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child -- The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child.”

Peter Greenaway

In an interview in Film Quarterly, Winter 1991-92
Interviews

“As author in control of the plot I can choose and dictate the fall-out of events from any number of infinite possibilities -- which is a very volatile state of affairs, suggesting the ephemerality of fictional narrative. I can choose to have seven characters and kill six of them off in the first five minutes. I can have seventy characters and squash them under a fallen rock, make them copulate with beasts, sit them on the moon or turn their hair white. This casual condition of authorship is irresponsible.”

Peter Greenaway

Watching Water

“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