I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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Рow 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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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 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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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