Peter Greenaway

“A film is not a slave of its script.”

“I am bored with narrative.”

“Cinema is the most elitist of all arts. It is the most expensive. It is the most powerful.”

“If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a director.”

“Cinema is dead, long live cinema.”

“I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.”

“There are four great pillars of cinema: sex, death, the desire for power and the fear of death.”

“I have an extraordinary ego. I have a feeling of my own importance.”

“My cinema is an cinema of ideas, not plots.”

“I've been a painter all my life. It's what I do.”

“The tyranny of the frame is something I have been deeply exercised about.”

“The notion of the writer who is a true genius is really a 19th-century phenomenon.”

“I think cinema is a very pompous, self-important art form.”