“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.” — Peter Greenaway Quote

“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”

“I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.”

“It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.”

“The first time I experienced anxiety, I was 21. It was my last semester of college, and I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do afterward. I said, 'Mom, I feel like there's a vise over my heart. What's going on?' And she said, 'Oh, it's anxiety.' But I wasn't an anxious child.”

“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”

“Some parts stay with me for weeks afterward. It's these people that I play. They get under my skin, and I just can't let go of them. I have immersed myself into their lives and into their beings so much that they feel like a part of me.”