I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAAnd 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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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