I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal. — Peter Greenaway Interest Copy Share Image
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. — Peter Greenaway Data 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
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. — Peter Greenaway Blessing Copy Share Image
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life. — Peter Greenaway Birth Copy Share Image
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting. — Peter Greenaway Internet 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
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway Good writers Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new… — Peter Greenaway Believe Copy Share Image
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. — Peter Greenaway Clean Copy Share Image
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a… — Peter Greenaway Cinematic 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
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
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage. — Peter Greenaway American film Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Aesthetics 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,… — Peter Greenaway Apostles 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Behaviour 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
All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females… — Peter Greenaway Eight Copy Share Image
I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and… — Peter Greenaway Building 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 Book Copy Share Image
I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well… — Peter Greenaway Believe 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
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. — Peter Greenaway Age Copy Share Image
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis. — Peter Greenaway Encyclopedia Copy Share Image
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature. — Peter Greenaway Birth Copy Share Image
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are. — Peter Greenaway Knows Copy Share Image
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you. — Peter Greenaway Admit 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
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
