The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAYou know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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 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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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