Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
ABEL FERRARAMy 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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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