You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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 need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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