I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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 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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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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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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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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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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’m about my characters.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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