In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARAMulberry 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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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