“Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naiv...” — Peter Greenaway Quote

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Cinema ceases to be passive and becomes active: you, the audience, are now, in some senses, in charge of the filmmaking process. You have all got mobile phones, you have all got cam recorders, and you've all got laptops, so you're all filmmakers.

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

Children don't have anywhere to go except cinema halls, malls and restaurants. All three aren't ideal places for kids to grow up in.

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

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.