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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. "

Paul Morrissey

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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