I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes. - Peter Greenaway

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

What quaint English. They make an unpredictable linguistic duo.

There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction -- all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.