There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more.… — 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… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at… — 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 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
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
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — 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
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
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle -… — 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
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. — 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
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
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 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 like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — 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
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies… — 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
