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
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Cinema 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
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. — Peter Greenaway Believe 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
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 don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. — Peter Greenaway Cinema 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 visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway Bloody Copy Share Image
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.… — Peter Greenaway Body Copy Share Image
There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at… — Peter Greenaway Strange Copy Share Image
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. — Peter Greenaway Basically 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
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
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. — Peter Greenaway Communication 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 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 share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal. — Peter Greenaway Interest Copy Share Image
I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours… — Peter Greenaway Connected Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Death Copy Share Image
