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
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
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 think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one… — 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
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a… — 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
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
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
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
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
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — 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
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 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… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've… — 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
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
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands… — 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
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after,… — 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
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of… — 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
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
