You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARACertain 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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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