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.
ABEL FERRARALife is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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 more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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