Peter Greenaway Quotes

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• We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of…
• What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
• I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
• I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
• If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands…
• My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and…
• An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed…
• Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect…
• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to…
• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances…
• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas…
• My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious…
• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema…
• Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary…
• As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a…
• Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting…
• On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more…

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