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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

Abel Ferrara

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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Fast Funny Hardest Improvised Laughing Look Loose Something Thing
You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Make Movie Telephone Want Wish
I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Buddhist Catholic Lapse Point Worship
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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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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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Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Come Done Film Success World
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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never Problem
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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Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
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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Direct End Film Going Job
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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Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
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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Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
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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Believe Christmas Day Earth Eve Important Lst Okay Pow
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Answer Change Door Except Making Money
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
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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Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
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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Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
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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House Ipad Machine Message Real Shut Sing Song Washing
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Care Do Film Get Million
The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Changing Constantly Learning Mark Spot Willing World
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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Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves

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