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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it. "

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" It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

" I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "