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.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

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.

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.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.