Paul Morrissey Quotes

I'll tell you what, I had complete control on 'Unleashed.' I directed, produced, chose the musician, picked the costumes, and everything. I never had anyone saying, 'I don't like this and I don't like that.' The studio, Universal, were easy. It was this weird movie no one cared about.

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody Allen and Tim Burton. Two different textures, but both get to do what they want, and that's rare.

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't really exist in my case.

It's just that as a solo artist, I have more burden and responsibilities on my shoulders.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

I just want to do films which I enjoy doing and the audience will too like it watching.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

I don't believe in making those high-brow films that the audience does not understand.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

After the blockbuster 'Magadheera,' I made a film with comedian Sunil as the hero. If I am interested in making a film - big or small - I will go ahead and make it.

I do recognise I have a responsibility to the audience. They feel fairly confident that if I'm in something, they can sit down with their family and be entertained by it. I don't desperately want to change that.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life.

Writing feels safe, you know, it's a hard job, but at least you're in your office or wherever you are and there's no one standing over your shoulder staring at what you're writing. And when you're directing, everybody's looking over your shoulder.

I could never work in that kind of commercial environment where the stars have a lot to say, where the producers kind of push you around and tell you who to cast and who not to cast. I'm just not interested in that at all.

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.