Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie – ‘Casablanca,’ say – and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else’s dream anymore because you can go off and make your own. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you’re thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education – it lays out all the early books of the Bible. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. Peter Greenaway Read Quote
