Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
