So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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