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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nico was peculiar. She was extraordinary. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "