Paul Morrissey Quotes

If you want reality take the bus.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

I like to keep my films close to reality.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

I come out of real life.

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.