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.