My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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 about my characters.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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