I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal. — Peter Greenaway Interest 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 Film Copy Share Image
I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge. — Peter Greenaway Culture Copy Share Image
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Artist Copy Share Image
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. — Peter Greenaway Bible Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Actors 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 Cinema 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 Doe Copy Share Image
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. — Peter Greenaway Curious Copy Share Image
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James… — Peter Greenaway About 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 Always Copy Share Image
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after,… — Peter Greenaway Alas Copy Share Image
I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for… — Peter Greenaway Approach 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 Business Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Barren Copy Share Image
I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of… — Peter Greenaway Books Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and… — Peter Greenaway Art Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Absurd Copy Share Image
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place… — Peter Greenaway All kinds Copy Share Image
I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about… — Peter Greenaway Believe Copy Share Image
I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it,… — Peter Greenaway Difficult Copy Share Image
It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of… — Peter Greenaway Criticism Copy Share Image
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's… — Peter Greenaway Books Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — Peter Greenaway Accused Copy Share Image
