Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARAIt’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 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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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