He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I’m about my characters.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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