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" Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art. "

Paul Morrissey

Person

Museums

Art

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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 of comedy. "

" I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff. "

Paul Morrissey

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" Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that. "

" It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention. "

" Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money. "

" I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody. "

" I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. "

" I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films. "

" Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. "

" I'm not anti-Hollywood; not at all. In fact, I'm rather fascinated by everything that goes on here. When I get hold of a copy of 'Variety,' I read it cover to cover; I love to know what people are doing. "

" You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath. "

" It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person. "

" People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings. "

" What made Andy famous was the years I managed him. I created the Velvet Underground and told him not to worry about them because they would help his career. All those things I did created his fame. "

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

Paul Morrissey

Sell

Never

" I like the idea of stepping back into another time period. "

" I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit. "

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

" A good conservative is someone with an open mind. "

" I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin. "

" If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera. "

" None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them. "

" Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them. "

" We are always getting photos and publicity from people who want to act in Andy's movies. We always throw them away. They don't seem to realize that the last thing we'd put into a movie is an actor. Because all the other movies use actors. "

" I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that. "

Paul Morrissey

Help

Change

" You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it. "

" Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures. "

" I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. "