“Have a go. Anybody can do it.”

It doesn’t matter what the technology is – no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.

So fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.

If you’d been where I’d been… if you’d seen the things I’d seen!… you… you’d be me… Or someone following me around.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

The films that I do tend to polarise people’s views.

I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.

Damn referees, I’ll miss them less than anybody.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

But I’ve been there and done that. I’m not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come.

I’m not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.

Find the one you can talk to, when you can’t talk to anybody else.