My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARAWith ‘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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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 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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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