Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARAIt’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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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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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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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 need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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