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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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" 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. "

Paul Morrissey

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

" 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 always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that. "

Paul Morrissey

Help

Change

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

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

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