In Vogue magazine March 1970
KENT: Do your films ever have scripts and plots?
WARHOL (smiling) Sometimes. Half a page, a paragraph. But, mainly, the stars improvise their own dialogue. Somehow, we attract people who can turn themselves on in front of the camera. In a sense, they're really superstars. It's much harder, you know, to be your own script than to memorize someone else's. Anyhow, scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen...
I don't think plot is important. If you see a movie, say, of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved --- you miss things ---you come back to it---you see new things. But you can't see the same movie 0ver and over again if it has a plot because you already know the ending.
KENT: But isn't improvisational movie making a matter of luck, depending upon the resources of the people who are doing the improvising?
WARHOL: (Fervidly, as if his own voice had revealed a mystery) : Everyone is rich. Everyone and everything is interesting. Years ago, people used to sit looking out of their windows at the street. Or on a park bench. They would stay for hours without being bored although nothing much was going on. This is my favorite theme in movie making ---just watching something happening for two hours or so.
Interview with Letitia Kent
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop
MasterEdited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts.)
