American - Director | February 23, 1938 -
Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.
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.
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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.
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Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.
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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.
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I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin.
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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.
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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.
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None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them.
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