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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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 not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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