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.
ABEL FERRARAIt’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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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