I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAThe last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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With ‘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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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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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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 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 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’m about my characters.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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