Peter Greenaway

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

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

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.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

I love Hindi films.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.