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„У главной суки Третьего рейха, вероятно, единственного существа, чью любовь и преданность полностью разделял её хозяин, появился щенок, которого назвали Вольф. Гитлер всегда считал своё имя Адольф старой формой немецкого «вольф» (волк). То есть косвенно Гитлер как бы признал своё отцовство и, следовательно, по крайней мере метафорически, своё волчье происхождение.“

„Я люблю кульбиты. А искусство, которое стремится как можно более точно копировать природу, вы сами назвали иллюзионистским. Что хорошего в иллюзиях? Настоящие художники – не иллюзионисты. Иллюзионизм – путь ленивых.“

«Золото»

„Когда человек отчаянно хочет проспать хотя бы ещё одну ночь в стылом бараке, на грязных деревянных нарах, без одеяла, зато с полчищем вшей, из-за которых придётся раздирать себя ногтями до костей, поразительно, на какие чудеса он становится способен.“

„Что мне мешает снимать кино? Сценарий, камера, актёры.“

«Золото»

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

Питер Гринуэй: Цитаты на английском языке

“To a man of honour that is no choice.”

Philip
8 1/2 Women

“There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.”

Philip and Kito
8 1/2 Women

“Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.”

In an interview in Cineaste, 1991
Interviews

“In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.”

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.”

Drowning By Numbers

“I married. I became a wife. I acquired a husband. I had a ceremonial wedding in style. Whichever way you say it -- it was bound to end badly.”

, quoted in Peter Greenaway's The
The Pillow Book

“Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -- a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression -- arriving at a finish of two digits -- a goal attained, a dénouement reached.”

Nagiko's journal for Feb 12 1990
The Pillow Book

“You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry -- it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.”

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“What is your favorite book?”

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

“The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities -- Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.”

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

“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”

8 1/2 Women

“She picks up the baby and contemplates the Bonsai-bush, and, as we watch, in the growing half-dark, the Bonsai-bush flowers. On the black-and-white film, the thousands of flower-petals blush a deep red.”

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

“Now, at this very minute, another thing is happening which we cannot hear because most paintings do not have a sound-track. Peter is inventing the word "simony" to explain ecclesiastical purchase-power, for which, since his Church later exercised it so expertly, Simon Magus ought to be revered as a patron not a rogue.”

Conclusion of the published script.
The Pillow Book

“Are these clues? Which ones are important? Which ones are incidental? Which ones are circumstantial?”

Flying Out of This World

“What else could there be?”

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

“He spoilt it -- he spoke.”

The Belly of An Architect

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

“ "It was only a film."”

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

“How safe are we here?”

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

“Does Albert read?”

“Blind eyes cannot read.”

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

“You weren't asleep then.”

From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"
The Pillow Book

8 1/2 Women

“Only from bad books.”

“It can hardly be said that Greenaway is unaware of his demoniac cleverness, but he unearths the nuggets buried in his work in a spirit of generosity. They are not so much possessions to be admired as gifts to be shared.”

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

“Men are so shit scared of female activities, especially if they are clandestine.”

, in an interview with Greenaway in the Washington DC City Paper, 6 Apr 1990
About Greenaway

“I suppose I have a concern for this extraordinary, beautiful, amazing, exciting, taxonomically brilliant world that we live in, but we keep fucking it up all the time.”

In an interview in Cineaste, 1991
Interviews