Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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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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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 need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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