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
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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