- When actors on the set of The Baby of Mâcon (1993) pointed out that he was introducing continuity errors, Peter replied that 'Continuity is boring.'
- When he saw Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) at age 16 he decided he wanted to be a film maker.
- His favorite movie is Last Year at Marienbad (1961).
- Was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 "Queen's New Years Honors List" for his services to film.
- Trained as a painter.
- In 1999, Greenaway divorced his wife, sold the family home in Wales, and resettled permanently in the Netherlands.
- Since the middle of the 1990s, he's a resident of Amsterdam, where he lives with Saskia Boddeke, a theater-director, and their two children.
- His favorite actress is Delphine Seyrig.
- Has received honorary degrees from universities in Staffordshire, Edinburgh, Gdansk, Bucharest, Southampton and Utrecht.
- Uncle of David Greenaway.
- Is the father of four children, including daughters Hannah and Jessica from his first marriage, and Zoë from his current marriage.
- His break with Michael Nyman came with Prospero's Books (1991), when Nyman discovered that Greenaway had overlaid his original score with what he calls "awful phoney electronic music".
- Imelda Staunton ,Dawn French and Billy Connelly turned down a Peter Greenaway 1998 film because it involved full frontal nudity.
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