Paul Morrissey Quotes

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.

I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.