Peter Greenaway Quotes

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.