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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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