I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — 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 don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — 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
