Peter Greenaway: I've seven productive years left to finish 30 projects
The British filmmaker talks about his distaste for narrative cinema and his rush to complete everything before he turns 80
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: Over the years, I've got closer and closer to what I myself am doing. For a long time, it was considered very incestuous for a filmmaker to make a film about filmmaking. There have been some good ones — I suppose the most celebrated one would be [Federico] Fellini's 8½ — but I also believe cinema is dying very, very quickly, and it's a good idea to celebrate the greatest film director ever.
We're going to make a trilogy and probably call it "Eisenstein Abroad". There are two more films to come: Eisenstein in Hollywood is about him in Hollywood, and Eisenstein in Switzerland is when he attended the first film festival ever in a place called La Sarraz. It's to examine the reason why he changed from being a filmmaker who made films about grand ideas and groups of people, to one who made cinema about personalities and people with emotional reactions.