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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Abel Ferrara

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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Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Based Dollar Endeavour Know Long Million Month
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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Cost Determination Imagination Life Limit Point
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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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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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Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
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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Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
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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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Age Country Early Father Moved Problem
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
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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Direct End Film Going Job
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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Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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House Ipad Machine Message Real Shut Sing Song Washing
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking

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