Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARABut 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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