I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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