Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAMy 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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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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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