Derek Jarman citations

“Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.”

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Derek Jarman

Letter to the Minister, 1992

“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

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Source: Dancing Ledge

“On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.”

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At Your Own Risk

“People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."”

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In Bergen Filmklub http://www.bergen-filmklubb.no/Arkiv/LENGRE_ARTIKLER/VAaREN_2005/DEREK_JARMAN.html