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
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
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at… — 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
I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to… — 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
