I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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