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 Read Quote
Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He’d break the ice by taking pictures. Paul Morrissey Read Quote
I’ve always stayed independent, but I’ve always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. Paul Morrissey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you’re not going to be good. Paul Morrissey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think it’s absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. Paul Morrissey Read Quote
