Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAI 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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