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?
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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 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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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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