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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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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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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I’m about my characters.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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