I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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