The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAThere 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 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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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 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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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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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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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