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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Democrats tax anything that moves. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "