226 Quotes by Peter Greenaway

"I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world."

"Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone."

"American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?"

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

"Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else."

"I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal."

"My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?"

"Works of art are never finished, just stopped."

"I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM."

"I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein."