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" It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore. "

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" If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. "

Peter Greenaway

Cinema

Think

Sometimes

" All religions have always hated females. "

" Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.' "

" We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding. "

" I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein. "

" I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. "

" If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile? "

" I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that. "

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

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

" Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge. "

" Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory. "

" We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is. "

Peter Greenaway

Seeing

Looking

" 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 do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema. "

Peter Greenaway

Cinema

Need

" Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. "

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

" It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport. "

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

" My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish. "

" Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. "

" Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. "

" 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

Critics

Than

" Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. "

" 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 celebratory. "

" 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. "

" English culture is highly literary-based. "

" I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. "

" I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it. "