To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must… — 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
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — 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
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
We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the… — 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
