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?
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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 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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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