I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARAYou know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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 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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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