No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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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 know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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’m about my characters.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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