“I’m always afraid someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, ‘Back to North London’.”

Ive never actually watched another director work.

Making a film is so hard that if you don’t have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

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.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

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.

When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.