Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAHe 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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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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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