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" Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good. "

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" I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit. "

" 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. "

" If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design. "

" 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. "

" My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics. "

" My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about. "

" I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff. "

" I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business. "

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

" If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera. "

" Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real. "

" 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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

" 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. "

" It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention. "

" It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. "