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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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" 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. "

Paul Morrissey

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. "

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

" 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. "

" Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Paul Morrissey

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

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

" 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. "

" Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "