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.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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