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 want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Art 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… — Peter Greenaway Acquire 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… — Peter Greenaway Compliment 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.… — Peter Greenaway Art 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… — Peter Greenaway Blindness Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Arrogant 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… — Peter Greenaway Believe 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 Finding your way 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… — Peter Greenaway Ability 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 Art Copy Share Image
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway Capable Copy Share Image
Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly… — Peter Greenaway Creator Copy Share Image
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. — Peter Greenaway Approved 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has… — Peter Greenaway Able Copy Share Image
Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of… — Peter Greenaway Best 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
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway British Copy Share Image
If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? — Peter Greenaway Die Copy Share Image
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are. — Peter Greenaway Knows Copy Share Image
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in… — Peter Greenaway Breaths Copy Share Image
