Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
Cinema has reached a dead end..
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis..
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the trut….
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes..
I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fo….
I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone..
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teachin….
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositio….
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-Europe….
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances wher….
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure..
Cinema is dead, long live cinema..
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this….
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Pe….
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, ….
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might of….
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past..
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end..
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are..
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?.
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse..