If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design.

Paul Morrissey

Categorized in : My Life Live Life Design

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

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You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath.

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Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary.

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If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

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Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.

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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

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A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

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I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

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Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.

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I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

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I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

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The Democrats tax anything that moves.

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Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.

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Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

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It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.

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I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that.

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I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films.

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Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real.

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Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money.

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Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what's going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else.

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