Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAWhich filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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 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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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