Peter Greenaway Quotes

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Cinema is like dream.

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.

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.

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

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

No one is bigger than cinema.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

My first love will always be movies.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

I don't watch many films.

Films are something that happened by chance.

We are a nation of film lovers, and films have often been a cultural glue that binds us all in a way that transcends geography.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

Film is something that came later into my life.