A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I’m about my characters.
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