Peter greenaway

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who...

English culture is highly literary-based.

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

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

I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly...

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

All religions have always hated females.

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

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

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.