Cinema Quote by Paul Morrissey

“It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.”

Paul Morrissey

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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…

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Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

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The people of Pittsburgh should have a weekend flea market at the Warhol. Andy would have loved that kind of stuff.

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