My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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 ’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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