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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "