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" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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