American - Director | February 23, 1938 -
My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about.
Paul Morrissey
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.
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