The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARALife is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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 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 about my characters.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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’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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