That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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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 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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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 actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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 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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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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