Occupation: Film Director Birth: January 31, 1942 Death: February 19, 1994
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ide….
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, i….
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, s….
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….
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for ….
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away..
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea..
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum..
People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries..
I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide t….
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. A….
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to ….
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits….
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this….
Painters used red like spice.
If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them..
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying..
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!.