Peter Greenaway Quotes

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

It's a do-it-yourself kind of era with these pieces and bits of technology called iPhones. You can film your own stuff and throw it up on YouTube, I think is just a fantastic novelty and opportunity for young actors, young filmmakers to learn and hone their craft.

You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

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.

In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.

Augmented reality, and even just the iPad-touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.