Peter Greenaway Quotes

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

My personality doesn't interest me.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

Our sartorial choices aren't that different from our psyches.

I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

What we seek is what we are.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.