People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

I always chose talkative people. And Viva, who was my first wife - we started making films together because she was extraordinarily creative. I was drawn to those people who tended to talk or act differently. The nice thing about using your friends as actors is they trust you. I wouldn't use footage of people that was destructive to them.

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

You sometimes say things over the phone to friends that you don't really mean.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.