Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly… — 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
Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. — 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
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you. — 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
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
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
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. — 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
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
