I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes. - Peter Greenaway

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.

Hadrian... as you know an architect of note... put a lot of faith in stones... died peacefully... planning a Temple to Wisdom... still, he's dead. Nero -- best not to talk about him -- burnt Rome, caused untold misery, deserved to die; died screaming in a summerhouse.

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