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• Peter Greenaway:

  English culture is highly literary-based.

• Peter Greenaway:

  I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

• Peter Greenaway:

  I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my f

• Peter Greenaway:

  I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this

• Peter Greenaway:

  I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it be

• Peter Greenaway:

  For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

• Peter Greenaway:

  We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

• Peter Greenaway:

  For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meani

• Peter Greenaway:

  I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was int

• Peter Greenaway:

  Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in char