If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James… — Peter Greenaway About Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as… — Peter Greenaway Becomes Copy Share Image
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker. — Peter Greenaway Filmmaker Copy Share Image
Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those… — Peter Greenaway Education Copy Share Image
We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion… — Peter Greenaway Art 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
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form,… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that… — Peter Greenaway Doe Copy Share Image
I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in… — Peter Greenaway 19th century Copy Share Image
I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who… — Peter Greenaway Ads Copy Share Image
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. — Peter Greenaway Interesting Copy Share Image
The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After… — Peter Greenaway Allowing 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
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
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to… — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies… — Peter Greenaway Always 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
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
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. — Peter Greenaway Cinema Copy Share Image
