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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Paul Morrissey

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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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "