Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.

I like out, I like the outside world.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.