The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands… — Peter Greenaway Ambition Copy Share Image
We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema. — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. — Peter Greenaway How 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
We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. — Peter Greenaway Change 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
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell… — Peter Greenaway Black Copy Share Image
There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's… — Peter Greenaway Contemplating 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
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — Peter Greenaway Approach Copy Share Image
Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the… — Peter Greenaway Activity 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
We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway Diaries Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Acknowledge 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
Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' — Peter Greenaway Afterlife Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Historian 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
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Audience Copy Share Image
Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use… — Peter Greenaway Accomplish Copy Share Image
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
