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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 23rd, 1938

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