Peter Greenaway Quotes about Film

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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Peter Greenaway

Arrogant, Film

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

Peter Greenaway

Potters, Film, Lord

"'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

Peter Greenaway

Thinking, Cinema, Film

Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions