226 Quotes by Peter Greenaway

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?

A hand cannot write on itself.

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.