Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

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

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.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

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

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.