In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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 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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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