"This is my personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s. It's a look back at what life was like then for my friends and me - at the paintings, movies, fashions, music, at the superstars and the relationships that made up the scene at our Manhattan loft, the place known as the Factory"
"One of the things that happens when you write about your life is that you educate yourself. When you actually sit down and ask yourself, "What was that all about?" you begin to think hard about the most obvious things. For instance, I've often thought "What is a friend? Somebody you know? Somebody y"
"I've been quoted a lot as saying, "I like boring things." Well, I said it and I meant it. But that doesn't mean I'm not bored by them. Of course, what I think is boring must not be the same as what other people think is, since I could never stand to watch all the most popular action shows on TV, bec"
"One thing I've always liked to do is hear what people think of each other - you learn just as much about the person who's talking as about the person who's getting dished. It's called gossip, of course, and it's an obsession of mine."
"Mainly, there were two types of underground film people: the ones who looked at their films from a scholastic or intellectual point of view - as works of art - and thought of themselves as "underground filmmakers," and the ones who looked at their films as commercial vehicles and thought of themselv"