My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARAThere 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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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