Peter Greenaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Cinema is dead, long live cinema.”

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

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

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

“I am bored with narrative.”