Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.