That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARAWhich filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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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