Giovanni E. Morassutti > Quotes

“I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“A great many a drop of water will create a creek.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“For me personally, The Organic Creative Process helped me to discover what kind of actor I want to be; but this is a process that goes beyond acting. It actually revealed to me what I want to do in my life and that I have to work hard to make it real.”
― Giovanni Morassutti, Accidentally On Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity

“Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Follow your body because most of the time it knows where to go.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I believe that the art world will expand into a broader field and intertwine more and more disciplines and cultures setting new trends within the cultural field.”
― Giovanni E. Morassutti, Arts management in South Asia and Europe. THE INTERTWINING OF ARTS MANAGEMENT AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE

“Ellen Stewart has been a very important figure in my life. She had so much to say about art and theater but most of all she showed me that love is the most powerful tool in life.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“There is also a therapeutic component in the Organic Creative Process: with the exploration of the various characters, the actor develops the knowledge of himself, even through suffering.”
― Giovanni Morassutti, Strasberg legacy

“I remember a whole session at the Actors Studio in New York on the cathartic value of the word “fuck”: swear words are liberating for a method actor. In the film, on the contrary, I had to maintain the reality of my character, while speaking a strictly cultured language: it has been a real challenge. I would have liked it so much to be able to say also some crudity…!”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I am very pleased that my commitment to acting as a transformative art form has been recognized ..... I did my best not to fall into clichés by observing the gay scene in Berlin in its most diverse forms, working also on my feminine side.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The search for truth in artistic expression is the core of the work in the realistic school of acting.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I thank Giancarlo Giannini for having taught me how to use my voice.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The Method tends to be linear, almost like a 19th century mechanistic way of thinking in its search for a cause that produces the desired effect.”
― Giovanni Morassutti, Strasberg legacy

“We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Trust and help people around you”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The Strasberg family has been an example of sincere dedication to the acting craft and the actors who came out of this movement commonly associated with the Method made the history of modern acting.”
― Giovanni Morassutti, Strasberg legacy

“I believe that nature and art can express one of the fundamental mysterious truths of life, equal to all of us.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Wine making is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration therefore good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an experience which leaves a lasting impression.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“Perfection? Being the most human you can be.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I believe that nowadays we are in the process of establishing a new relationship between humanity, creativity and nature.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I have the feeling that curatorship in Europe is becoming more and more an academic field confined to institutional settings.”
― Giovanni E. Morassutti, Arts management in South Asia and Europe. THE INTERTWINING OF ARTS MANAGEMENT AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE

“I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“The film that has influenced me the most is probably Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, with whom I had the chance to work while in the US. Seeing that movie during a time of my life in which I was exploring my sexuality and looking at the work of River Phoenix made me dream about acting in a film.”
― Giovanni Morassutti

“I think I have absorbed the original spirit of the Actors Studio at a young age where actors kept working on themselves regardless of their material success.”
― Giovanni Morassutti