The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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