I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAThe 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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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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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