Warhol recruited screenwriters for their voices, not their words

Evidence

In a sense, she displaced the writer Ronald Tavel, whom Warhol had discovered in November 1964 reading from his unpublished novel at Le Metro and recruited to furnish screenplays for the Factory’s new talking pictures. What the writer said was secondary. Warhol was taken with Tavel’s nasal, Brooklyn-inflected drawl. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 726

Categorization

• SEED: Tavel recruited for his drawl, not his writing, is a crisp case of auteur methodology being honestly materialist about what camera + star need.