Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 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 about my characters.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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