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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "