I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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 actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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