Andy Warhol (1972)

Henry Geldzahler: Self

Quotes 

• Henry Geldzahler : Andy is attracted by beauty, by evil, by innocence, by very basic things, most of which have to do, I think, with two aspects of his childhood. One of them is being starstruck by Hollywood, by the glamor. The glamor of the art world just wasn't enough, he had to get into the glamor of the film world. That was one of the impulses that moved him from painting into filmmaking. The other is, I think, his Catholicism, his involvement with the Church, his sense of Hell... Hell being a place not only that you go to sometimes after you die if you've been bad, but Hell as a place on earth that is to be looked at, felt deeply and then avoided.

• Henry Geldzahler : He's a bit of a sadist as well as a bit of a voyeur. That is, he likes to push his relationships as far as they'll go. And therefore, the people that he's close to, the superstars as it were, if he is a voyeur-sadist, they must be exhibitionist-masochists. I think that's the reason that the superstars burn out as fast as they do. They're pushed to the extreme of their behavior and then they're no longer interesting to watch.