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.
ABEL FERRARAРow 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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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 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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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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