Film-making is a physically hard job.

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

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.

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

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.