If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Death Copy Share Image
Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting. — Peter Greenaway Artist 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 really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. — Peter Greenaway Believe 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
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. — Peter Greenaway Paper Copy Share Image
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal. — Peter Greenaway Guy Copy Share Image
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — Peter Greenaway 100 years 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
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Audience Copy Share Image
I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we… — Peter Greenaway 20th century 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
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you… — Peter Greenaway Famous Copy Share Image
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I… — Peter Greenaway American Copy Share Image
Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process.… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — Peter Greenaway Art Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that… — Peter Greenaway Art Copy Share Image
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Barriers Copy Share Image
It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which… — Peter Greenaway Audience 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
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway Diaries 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
What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to... — Peter Greenaway Addict 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
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway Bloody Copy Share Image
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. — Peter Greenaway Curious 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
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'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
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
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
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Artist 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
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
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
