Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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