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" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "
Paul Morrissey
Peculiar
Extraordinary
She
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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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Nature
Work
You
" 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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Worry
Career
Fame
" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "
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Anything
Democrats
Tax
" Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money. "
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Where
Thought
Money
" 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
" A good conservative is someone with an open mind. "
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Open
Someone
Good
" Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics. "
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Became
Somewhere
Wimps
" 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. "
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Him
Camera
Shy
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Live
Thought
New York
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Camera
Special
Leave
" Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them. "
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People
Things
Few
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Old
Some People
Some
" 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. "
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Over
Done
Years
" 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
Comedians
" I like the idea of stepping back into another time period. "
Paul Morrissey
Idea
Back
Stepping
" I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business. "
Paul Morrissey
Say
Business
Day
" I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. "
Paul Morrissey
Movies
Independent
Audience
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Know
Hell
Good
" The people of Pittsburgh should have a weekend flea market at the Warhol. Andy would have loved that kind of stuff. "
Paul Morrissey
Pittsburgh
Kind
Loved
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
You
Jokes
Avoiding
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Always
Want
People
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Comedy
Too
Rome
" My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics. "
Paul Morrissey
Better
Play
Always
" Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. "
Paul Morrissey
Spontaneous
You
Good
" 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
Doing
Circumstances
Long
" I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. "
Paul Morrissey
Censorship
Things
Principle
" It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention. "
Paul Morrissey
Pay Attention
People
Attention
" I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films. "
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Special
Never
Just
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Kind
Ideas
Need
" 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. "
Paul Morrissey
Variety
Doing
People