“It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.”
In an interview in Page, May 1999
Interviews
Peter Greenaway: 266 citations0 J'aime
Peter Greenaway: Citations en anglais
“My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.”
In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews
“Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.”
The tenth book, "The Book of Silence"
The Pillow Book
“I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone.”
Albert
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
In an interview in the Washington DC City Paper, 6 Apr 1990
Interviews
From the introduction to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts
“Cinema: An illusion that can only satisfactorily happen in the dark.”
Rosa: The Death of a Composer
"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text
Drowning By Numbers
“What do you mean -- Happy anniversary? It's not my birthday.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“A hand cannot write on itself.”
From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"
The Pillow Book
From the first book, "The Agenda"
The Pillow Book
“I can -- your mother's dead.”
Storey and Philip
8 1/2 Women
“ "What days are those Albert? And what's it like?"”
Albert and Mitchel
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.”
In an interview in Artforum, Nov. 83
Interviews
Palmira
8 1/2 Women
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.”
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
"The Schultz Song"
M is for Man, Music, and Mozart
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“It is a most unexpected Earthquake in Geneva.”
Final line of the published script.
8 1/2 Women
From the Author's Note to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts
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.”
Final words of the published script.
Prospero's Books
