Top 21 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

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

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

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

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.