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.
ABEL FERRARAIn the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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’m about my characters.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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