I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARASo 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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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