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 More Quotes by Peter Greenaway More Quotes From Peter Greenaway Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. Peter Greenaway artist years thinking What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to. Peter Greenaway addict where-you-come kind I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it. Peter Greenaway excitement cinema sports I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions. Peter Greenaway distance emotional thinking We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. Peter Greenaway statistics secret lying My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else. Peter Greenaway favourite cinema way There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death. Peter Greenaway western-culture two sex We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer. Peter Greenaway perspective suffering sight I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms. Peter Greenaway ivory-tower peculiar sound There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification. Peter Greenaway emotional expectations opportunity To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can. Peter Greenaway atheist responsibility religious 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. Peter Greenaway cinema wish art There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist. Peter Greenaway pope littles believe We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me. Peter Greenaway technology powerful moving We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. Peter Greenaway excess population information I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. Peter Greenaway cinema years thinking It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. Peter Greenaway serving purpose I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal. Peter Greenaway unusual strange share Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone. Peter Greenaway playgrounds cinema stones Cinema has reached a dead end. Peter Greenaway dead-ends cinema ends
