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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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