I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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’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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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 last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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