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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

Peter Greenaway

English culture is highly literary-based.

Peter Greenaway

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Peter Greenaway

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Peter Greenaway

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Peter Greenaway

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Peter Greenaway

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Peter Greenaway

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Peter Greenaway

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

Peter Greenaway

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Peter Greenaway

All religions have always hated females.

Peter Greenaway

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Peter Greenaway

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

Peter Greenaway