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" A good conservative is someone with an open mind. "

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" People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings. "

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" Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them. "

" Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money. "

" None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them. "

" Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art. "

" I'm not anti-Hollywood; not at all. In fact, I'm rather fascinated by everything that goes on here. When I get hold of a copy of 'Variety,' I read it cover to cover; I love to know what people are doing. "

" Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy. "

" You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath. "

" Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics. "

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" Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what's going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else. "

" Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do. "

" There's something about all the films that I have made in that they don't seem old or dated, and some people mention that. "

" What made Andy famous was the years I managed him. I created the Velvet Underground and told him not to worry about them because they would help his career. All those things I did created his fame. "

" We are always getting photos and publicity from people who want to act in Andy's movies. We always throw them away. They don't seem to realize that the last thing we'd put into a movie is an actor. Because all the other movies use actors. "

" I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. "

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" The people of Pittsburgh should have a weekend flea market at the Warhol. Andy would have loved that kind of stuff. "

" Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules. "

" Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures. "

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" Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that. "

" I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films. "