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
My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French,… — 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
My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the… — 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
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that… — 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
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
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
