Happy birthday, Derek Jarman! Here are some quotes from the brilliant filmmaker:
“But the wind does not stop for my thoughts. It whips across the flooded gravel pits drumming up waves on their waters that glint hard and metallic in the night, over the shingle, rustling the dead gorse and skeletal bugloss, running in rivulets through the parched grass—while I sit here in the dark holding a candle that throws my divided shadow across the room and gathers my thoughts to the flame like moths.”
—Modern Nature
“I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.”
“I’m hanging on to life for dear life.”
“Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill—only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.”
—Modern Nature
