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.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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’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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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 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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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