Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.
Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.
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.
I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'
The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' I wouldn't call any of them mainstream.
I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
