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Peter Greenaway quotes: I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Investigation is never complete.

Investigation is never complete.

Peter Greenaway quotes: We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Peter Greenaway quotes: It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

Peter Greenaway quotes: What are you some kind of addict? Is this where you come to ...

What are you
some kind of addict? Is this where you come to ...

Peter Greenaway quotes: If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

Peter Greenaway quotes: All religions have always hated females.

All religions have always hated females.

Peter Greenaway quotes: My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Itch to read, scratch to understand.

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Peter Greenaway quotes: We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Peter Greenaway quotes: That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I like a lot of glasses about it highers the tone.

I like a lot of glasses about
it highers the tone.

Peter Greenaway quotes: The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Peter Greenaway quotes: There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.' ...

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.' ...

Peter Greenaway quotes: There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

Peter Greenaway quotes: American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Peter Greenaway quotes: There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

Peter Greenaway quotes: As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Peter Greenaway quotes: The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it and I do and subtle beige, pink, white, tan, taup ...

The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it
and I do
and subtle
beige, pink, white, tan, taup ...

Peter Greenaway quotes: Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

Peter Greenaway quotes: A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options ...

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options ...

Peter Greenaway quotes: A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

Peter Greenaway quotes: If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Peter Greenaway quotes: English culture is highly literary-based.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I think it is really important to be in some way provocative either intellectually or viscerally in the films one makes.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative
either intellectually or viscerally
in the films one makes.

Peter Greenaway quotes: We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

Peter Greenaway quotes: For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Peter Greenaway quotes: It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

Peter Greenaway quotes: A hand cannot write on itself.

A hand cannot write on itself.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Peter Greenaway quotes: I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Peter Greenaway quotes: It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic I'll shut up.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic
I'll shut up.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Peter Greenaway quotes: We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Cinema has reached a dead end.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

Peter Greenaway quotes: If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Peter Greenaway quotes: The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Peter Greenaway quotes: If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?

If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?

Peter Greenaway quotes: I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Continuity is boring.

Continuity is boring.

Peter Greenaway quotes: This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Peter Greenaway quotes: You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Blind eyes cannot read.

Blind eyes cannot read.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Peter Greenaway quotes: Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.