Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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 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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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