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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "