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.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

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

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

Film-making is a physically hard job.

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