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

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

Investigation is never complete. — Peter Greenaway

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

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses. — Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

All religions have always hated females. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

Itch to read, scratch to understand. — Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

English culture is highly literary-based. — Peter Greenaway

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is dead, long live cinema. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. — Alan Parker

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

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

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

A hand cannot write on itself. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinema has reached a dead end. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

Continuity is boring. — Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

Blind eyes cannot read. — Peter Greenaway

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

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian. — Peter Greenaway