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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.

Peter Greenaway's Popular Quotes

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.

- Peter Greenaway

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

- Peter Greenaway

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

- Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre…

- Peter Greenaway

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

- Peter Greenaway

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

- Peter Greenaway

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

- Peter Greenaway

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

- Peter Greenaway

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems w…

- Peter Greenaway