I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAThe world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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