You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARAAnd 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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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