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“Lavoravo per un'agenzia che faceva documentari e a fine anni 60 ne stavano girando uno su chi inala la colla. Ragazzi giovani che, nei negozi di ferramenta, compravano la colla con un alto quoziente di evaporazione. Sniffavano questi vapori per sballarsi. Il produttore si stava spazientendo, non otteneva buone inquadrature. Così diede a un ragazzo dei soldi per fargli comprare la colla e fabbricare le prove. Per me era troppo. Non ho più voluto trovarmi in una situazione eticamente problematica come l'industria della ricostruzione di documentari. Mi sembra vergognoso pensare di chiudere la realtà nel cinema. La mia risposta a questi problemi è dire volutamente delle bugie. Sono un regista che inventa. Il mio è un cinema artificiale che cerca la verità attraverso la menzogna.”

Peter Greenaway

dal documentario L'aleph e l'occhio. Documentario su Giochi nell'acqua Massimo Galimberti, Distributore, 1982

“Molti di quelli che vanno al cinema, dopo 105 anni di produzione cinematografica, si aspettano che venga loro raccontata una storia. Non credo che il cinema sia un mezzo adatto alla narrazione. Se vuoi raccontare una storia, è meglio che tu faccia il romanziere. Il fatto che il cinema migliore non sia narrativo porta a paradossi e contraddizioni di cui mi sono occupato negli ultimi 15 anni. Ma c'è un problema: se si cerca di minimizzare o eliminare la narrazione, va trovato un altro modo di organizzare il materiale, altrimenti ci si trova nell'incoerenza e nel caos. Ho iniziato come pittore, mi interessavano molto i metodi e le classificazioni. Per questo ho usato spesso sistemi diversi dalla narrazione per organizzare il materiale cinematografico. Utilizzo le classificazioni numeriche, il simbolismo e la codificazione dei colori, e sicuramente anche i sistemi alfabetici.”

Peter Greenaway

Origine: Dal documentario di Massimo Galimberti, L'aleph e l'occhio. Documentario su Giochi nell'acqua (1982).

“Credo che la fine del XX secolo sia un momento di rinegoziazione sulla procreazione sulla nascita e sul sesso. La politica sessuale ci ha dato libertà più ampie, il concetto di contraccezione… L'approccio alla sessualità e alla castità ha aperto molte possibilità. È la morte a rimanere non negoziabile. È l'ultima frontiera. Sicuramente non sorprende il fatto che io parli di chiusura, perdita, morte e fine. Ritroviamo questi concetti anche nelle grandi tragedie.”

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“È vero che sono interessato alla classificazione perché credo che la civilizzazione funzioni così. Cerchiamo di organizzarci sulla base di teorie e di ipotesi per cercare di capire il complesso e straordinario mondo intorno a noi. I nostri sistemi di organizzazione sono molteplici: la religione è un sistema organizzativo, la politica è un sistema organizzativo. La nostra vita accademica, il modo di usare testi e linguaggio sono tutti mezzi per cercare di capire l'universo apparentemente caotico che ci circonda e per scendere a patti con esso.”

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dal documentario L'aleph e l'occhio. Documentario su Giochi nell'acqua Massimo Galimberti, Distributore, 1982

“Ricordate che parlo sempre di sesso e non di amore. Io sono un buon darwiniano e, dato il pensiero comune sull'evoluzionismo e sulle teorie comportamentali dico che siamo come delle valigie che servono a continuare il passaggio di geni.”

Peter Greenaway

dal documentario L'aleph e l'occhio. Documentario su Giochi nell'acqua Massimo Galimberti, Distributore, 1982

“Voglio riuscire a usare il cinema come un mezzo di discussione di idee, su tutto, ma soprattutto sulla rappresentazione, sull'estetica e su tutta l'industria cinematografica. Mi avvicinai alle nozioni hitchcockiane e del potere, ma penso che il cinema sia molto più di questo e che abbia molte altre possibilità. Una volta ho pericolosamente affermato che il cinema è un mezzo troppo ricco per essere lasciato ai cantastorie.”

Peter Greenaway

dal documentario L'aleph e l'occhio. Documentario su Giochi nell'acqua Massimo Galimberti, Distributore, 1982

Peter Greenaway: Frasi in inglese

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

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Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“Have you read all of them?”

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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.”

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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.”

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Rosa: The Death of a Composer

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

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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.”

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Fear of Drowning By Numbers

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

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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.”

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Jerome's mother
The Pillow Book

“Rubbish -- absolute rubbish!”

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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.”

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

“In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.”

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"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text

“Cleverness: A predisposition to irritate excessively.”

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Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“Cinema is dead. I can give you a date - it died on the 31st of September, 1983, when the zapper or the remote control was introduced to the livings rooms of the world. Bang! That's the end.”

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NoTV Interview with Peter Greenaway on VJ-ing http://www.petergreenaway.info/content/view/125/68/ <br class="br">Interviews

“Naked! So I can see no pranks and ruses.”

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8 1/2 Women

“What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment. It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.”

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

“… Sir Isaac Newton, the subject of this cake, is in every Englishman's wallet… he's on the English one-pound note. I always carry one on me for good luck. A man who discovered gravity and thus successfully secured our feet on the ground is a good companion. In fixing us to the earth, he enabled us -- with equanimity -- to permit our heads to remain in the clouds.”

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The Belly of An Architect

“You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.”

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Philip
8 1/2 Women

“Four soiled bedsheets sewn together to make a screen. One for spittle. One for urine. One for semen. One for blood. All for tears.”

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Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable -- the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.”

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, quoted in Peter Greenaway's The
The Pillow Book

“These buildings are just right for the excesses of post-modernism -- decorative, frivolous -- serving to obviously excite and attract -- every feature using the architectural vocabulary freely without too much regard for serious function -- open glass atriums and shining metals and expensive and artificial marbles, zany letterings and excess neon.”

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8 1/2 Women

“I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour.”

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

“Gonzalo threw many books into the bottom of the leaky vessel that took Prospero out on to the sea away from Italy and Europe into exile. Shakespeare does not, of course, elaborate what these volumes were. Prospero's Books speculates. There would need perhaps to be books on navigation and survival, there would need to be books for an elderly scholar to learn how to rear and educate a young daughter, how to colonise an island, farm it, subjugate its inhabitants, identify its plants and husband its wild beasts. There would need to be books to offer solace and advise patience and put past glory and present despondency into perspective. There would need to be books to encourage revenge.”

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Prospero's Books

“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.”

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

“Too many stupid people have it.”

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Two moviegoers
8 1/2 Women

“You can't write. That's not writing. It's scribbling. Distasteful scribbling. Why can't you write properly?”

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Nagiko, to Jerome
The Pillow Book

“Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke.”

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

“Prospero's power is held in his relationship to his books, and The Tempest is witness to more than a few apparently conflicting facets of his personality -- not all of them particularly praiseworthy. What was it, in those books, that made Prospero not only powerful but also a moralising schold and a petty revenger, a benevolent despote, a jealous father and also a master designer of song and dance? Are we truly the product of what we read?”

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Prospero's Books

“Sappho was a worshipper of the Aphrodite cult and on the island of Lesbos there were many cliff-jumpers. They all jumped. Some may say they flew in ecstasy. If only for nine seconds -- one second for each string of the lyre.”

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Flying Out of This World

“All this could be enough -- we would leave an Impressionist painting at this stage -- probably much earlier -- and leave it possibly with great satisfaction.”

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Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.”

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From the introduction to 8 1/2 Women
8 1/2 Women

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