226 Quotes by Peter Greenaway

I never go to the cinema. I can’t stand sitting in the dark with strangers – all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences – it’s too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

I’ve always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

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.

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 three tenses in one.

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby – but just me. Nobody else.

We live in a time of excess – excess population, excess information.

I admit that death is not just about you, it’s also about the people who love you.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn’t want me to create a guy who is mortal.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I’ve no doubt that the editor is key to a film.