Peter Greenaway

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

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.

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.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.