Peter Greenaway

“Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.”

“Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.”

“The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.”

“We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.”