The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle -… — Peter Greenaway Colour Copy Share Image
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to… — Peter Greenaway Desire 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
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
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up. — Peter Greenaway Easy 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 don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of… — Peter Greenaway Business 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
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Academic Copy Share Image
I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making… — Peter Greenaway Cinema 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
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 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
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
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — Peter Greenaway Accused Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Art 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
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
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
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
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
