“Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through ...” — Peter Greenaway Quote

“Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.”

“I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.”

“For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.”

“My mother and I always had full adult communication.”

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

“Breaking Borders' is about, more than anything, communication and conversation. The best lesson I've learned from doing this show is that when there is a breakdown in communication, conflict starts.”