I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre… - Peter Greenaway

Twenty-four pulleys, one hundred counterweights / two lenses, dark shadows...

Finally we hit upon the old cathedral of Amsterdam, which belongs to the Reformed Church and which we remodeled. The owners gave us permission, on certain financial conditions, to shoot the film there. Before that, we had planned to use the cathedral of Cologne, but two days before we began our preparations, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover was shown on German television and the archbishop immediately forbade us from entering the cathedral site!

Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.