As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARABut 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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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.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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 about my characters.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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