My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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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.’
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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