Peter Greenaway Quotes

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.