Peter Greenaway Quotes

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

I sure hope there will be more theatre on television and in the movie theaters. I do have to say, the idea of theatre in movie theaters is really exciting to me.

When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

Cinema is like dream.

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.

I don't watch many films.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.