Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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