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

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.

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

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

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

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

Have a go. Anybody can do it.