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.
ABEL FERRARAYou know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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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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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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