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.
ABEL FERRARAHe 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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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