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"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more."
"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."
"I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for."
"I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie."
"I never met a pet I didn't like."
"Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button."
"Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic."
"You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again."
"New things are always better than old things."
"It's great not to be a collector."
"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"
"Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries."
"Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off"
"What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it."
"I used to cut out paper dolls."
"The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in."
"What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted."
"I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems."
"I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting."
"Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world."