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.
ABEL FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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