Cinema has reached a dead end.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.