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. Paul Morrissey More Quotes by Paul Morrissey More Quotes From Paul Morrissey 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. Paul Morrissey you nature work men 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. Paul Morrissey your good you moral Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. Paul Morrissey she extraordinary peculiar If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera. Paul Morrissey camera live possible person Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules. Paul Morrissey live rules comedy people Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. Paul Morrissey good think you acting A good conservative is someone with an open mind. Paul Morrissey someone good conservative mind I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. Paul Morrissey look think serious believe I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff. Paul Morrissey comedians go up remember 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 live my-life design life I like the idea of stepping back into another time period. Paul Morrissey stepping back like time The Democrats tax anything that moves. Paul Morrissey moves democrats tax anything Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things. Paul Morrissey things serious character funny Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box. Paul Morrissey box own he never It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention. Paul Morrissey good pay-attention attention people I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that. Paul Morrissey help always change mind I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films. Paul Morrissey anything never just special 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. Paul Morrissey camera real special time Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money. Paul Morrissey make thought always money 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. Paul Morrissey child fashion media change
