Peter Greenaway

Blind eyes cannot read.

— Peter Greenaway

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm a Darwinian.

— Peter Greenaway

Cinema has reached a dead end.

— Peter Greenaway

Continuity is boring.

— Peter Greenaway

All religions have always hated females.

— Peter Greenaway

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

— Peter Greenaway

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

— Peter Greenaway

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

— Peter Greenaway

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

— Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

— Peter Greenaway

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

— Peter Greenaway

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

— Peter Greenaway

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

— Peter Greenaway

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

— Peter Greenaway

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

— Peter Greenaway

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

— Peter Greenaway

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

— Peter Greenaway

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

— Peter Greenaway

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

— Peter Greenaway

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share…

— Peter Greenaway

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.…

— Peter Greenaway

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

— Peter Greenaway

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…

— Peter Greenaway

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to…

— Peter Greenaway

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy…

— Peter Greenaway

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British…

— Peter Greenaway

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as…

— Peter Greenaway

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other…

— Peter Greenaway

I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who…

— Peter Greenaway

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After…

— Peter Greenaway

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to…

— Peter Greenaway

On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there…

— Peter Greenaway

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French,…

— Peter Greenaway

My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,…

— Peter Greenaway

I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to…

— Peter Greenaway

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

— Peter Greenaway

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway