Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

I don't want to die but I ain't keen on living either