--- title: "4 Curious Quotes By Peter Greenaway" description: "4 Curious quotes by Peter Greenaway. Plus more from Peter Greenaway and more Curious sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b3/peter-greenaway-2444_achieve_my-favourite-film-maker-west-of-the-engl_774067.jpg" --- > [My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/my-favourite-film-maker-west-of-the-english-channel-is-not-english/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b3/peter-greenaway-2444_achieve_my-favourite-film-maker-west-of-the-engl_774067.jpg) > [I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-would-be-curious-about-one-of-those-jane-austen-women-you-know-long/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/peter-greenaway-2444_19th-century_i-would-be-curious-about-one-of-those-ja_2739690.jpg) > [My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/my-personal-obsessions-are-much-more-interesting-to-me-than-other/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/peter-greenaway-2444_curious_my-personal-obsessions-are-much-more-int_2767997.png) > [I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-always-think-that-art-is-one-of-the-most-wonderful-exciting-curious/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/peter-greenaway-2444_always_i-always-think-that-art-is-one-of-the-mo_2916501.jpg) ## Other authors on Curious ## More by Peter Greenaway > [American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/american-actors-are-coy-we-all-have-pricks-and-cunts-or-are-you/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-want-to-be-a-prime-creator-as-every-self-regarding-artist-should-do/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/to-be-an-atheist-you-have-to-have-ten-thousand-times-more-imagination/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/an-american-critic-wrote-that-she-would-rather-be-forced-to-read-the/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-like-a-lot-of-glasses-about-it-highers-the-tone/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/there-are-those-who-think-that-zeffirelli-s-hamlet-is-the-way-to/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/a-really-intelligent-man-makes-an-indifferent-painter-for-painting/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-have-often-thought-it-was-very-arrogant-to-suppose-you-could-make-a/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/i-believe-that-cinema-died-on-the-31-september-1983-when-the-zapper/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/my-biggest-critical-success-was-the-draughtsman-s-contract-but-then/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/there-are-basically-only-two-subject-matters-in-all-western-culture/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/cinema-doesn-t-connect-with-the-body-as-artists-have-in-two-thousand/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/cinema-is-far-too-rich-and-capable-a-medium-to-be-merely-left-to-the/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/jean-renoir-once-suggested-that-most-true-creators-have-only-one-idea/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) > [Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/bill-viola-is-worth-ten-scorseses/) [Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/curious/peter-greenaway/#itemlist", "name": "4 Curious Quotes By Peter Greenaway", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. 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