Peter Greenaway

"Lincoln: A politician who enjoyed the theatre and died because of its convenient darknesses. A celebrated make of car. A town in Lincolnshire, England. A certain colour green."

"… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?"

"Counting makes even hideous events bearable as simply more of the same -- the counting of wedding-rings, spectacles, teeth and bodies disassociates them from their context -- to make the ultimate obsc…"

"It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again …"

"This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place."

"One is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child -- The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a w…"

"It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late."

"The world is in his cloak -- figures peer out of its folds -- mythological figures and snakes and pigs and flowers, naked fauns and heavy-breasted sirens and horses' heads -- they sprawl on the flagst…"