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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. "

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

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

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

" 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've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody. "

" I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin. "

" I like the idea of stepping back into another time period. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" So many things go on in life that never find their way into the movies because so much of it is unappealing. But that's what I want to show. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things. "