We had these ideas in our head, but it’s not until you really watch them unfold that I think the power of the surprise of that recognition comes through, even for us while making it.” You feel like he’s both witnessing the act of storytelling itself, which sort of pulls you out, and then you actually feel like you’re living with him in time, which pulls you in at the same time. And it wasn’t until we started to construct this first act of the film and you literally watch Lou Reed breathing and existing in time, next to a composite shot and a parallel shot that’s describing his childhood. “I’ve never watched an entire screen test from beginning to end, from sprockets to sprockets, emulsion coming in and emulsion going out.
“These are very famous images, and most of us have seen stills from the screen tests, and maybe clips in documentaries about Warhol,” Haynes said.
#Andy haynes archive#
But perhaps one of the most striking bits from the archive are the extended shots of each band member staring straight into the camera for screen tests during a Warhol shoot. Naturally, the film is filled with many of Warhol’s most famous images. A lot of it was a dance of coaxing and courting.” John’s an extraordinary artist who, there are times in any artist’s life where they feel like talking about the past, there are times where they maybe don’t feel like talking about the past. How much you ever are going to get I’m learning as a fresh documentarian is something you don’t know, and the process in which you try to make them comfortable and come prepared and make them feel like you’ve really done your work on your end, but then you let them go where they’re going to go. “Again,” said Haynes, “there would be no way to make it without John’s agreement and blessing, and agreement to participate and give of himself. The second component, and just as vital - or perhaps even more so - was the participation of founding Velvets’ member John Cale. This is the Andy Warhol Museum that deals with the films, and they’re very different entities.” This is not the Andy Warhol Foundation that deals with paintings. They knew that we needed them and that gave them some leverage, but they also knew that they needed this. So it was a building block, but if they had said no, that would be it. “It also established the terms and the costs and the issues of how we pay for it, because we wanted to establish the initial agreement with what they would allow us to do per minute, and use that when we approached other archives. The institution’s cooperation also helped secure the many, many other pieces of art and films and music that showcased in the documentary. He is a regular at the Comedy Store and the Comedy Cellar.“There’s no way we would have been able to make without an agreement without the Andy Warhol Museum, with the Warhol films in their archives,” Haynes said. He loves watching soccer (especially Arsenal), petting other people's dogs, and going into the wilderness. He's also acted in a few things, including a very prestigious Rent-A-Center ad.Īndy now splits his time between LA and NYC and wherever someone will pay him to make jokes.
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before moving to New York, where he performed on Late Nite with Jimmy Fallon, at the 2012 JFL New Faces showcase, and drove a moving truck. He finally ended up in LA.Īndy has been a full time comedian for the past six years performing on Conan, his own Comedy Central half hour special, and writing for a number of different television shows.
#Andy haynes professional#
Rainier, raised on caffeine and salmon, and after a poorly planned career in professional skiing (and two knee surgeries), Andy went to college and studied religion because he had taken the most units in that field and wanted to graduate.Īround this same time, Andy started doing stand up comedy and never stopped. He did a stint in Washington D.C.
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