I’m about my characters.
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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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 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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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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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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