Peter Greenaway Quotes

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

I'm not a sentimental guy.

I am not a sentimental person.

I'm not a mushy person at all.

My father was all brain and little heart.

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

I am not an emotional person, really.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

Anyone familiar with my work knows I'm no sappy sentimentalist.

I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.

I am deeply unsentimental.

I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.

I am not doting and am not romantic. I can have spurts of romance but am not consistently romantic.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing it on the other 364 days of the year.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

In Mexico and Latin America, everything is big: Bigger emotions, bigger reactions. Here in the U.S., everything is more natural, more grounded and down to earth.

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'