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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box. "

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