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.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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I’m about my characters.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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