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.’
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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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