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" 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
TV
Up
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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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" Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things. "
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" If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design. "
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" Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. "
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" Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Enthusiasm
You
" Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them. "
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Things
Few
" 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. "
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Too
Rome
" None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them. "
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Nobody
Years
Anybody
" Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do. "
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Kind
Ideas
Need
" My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics. "
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Better
Play
Always
" Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money. "
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Thought
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" 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. "
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Work
You
" My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about. "
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Doing
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Long
" Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real. "
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Leave
" If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera. "
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" 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. "
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Doing
People
" There's something about all the films that I have made in that they don't seem old or dated, and some people mention that. "
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Some People
Some
" Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics. "
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" So many things go on in life that never find their way into the movies because so much of it is unappealing. But that's what I want to show. "
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Never
Movies
" 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. "
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Want
People
" I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. "
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Things
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" I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that. "
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Like
Help
Change
" A good conservative is someone with an open mind. "
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Open
Someone
Good