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" 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. "

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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. "

Paul Morrissey

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what's going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else. "

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

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

" My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics. "

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

" 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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

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

Paul Morrissey

Comedians

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Sell

Never

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

" 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. "

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