Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
“After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.”
“I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.”