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> [Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-greenaway/eisenstein-was-a-good-editor-i-was-trained-as-a-film-editor-and-i-ve/)

[Peter Greenaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-greenaway/)

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## 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/)

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