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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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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - 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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

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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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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. 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, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

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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 grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

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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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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. 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. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

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I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

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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 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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