I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAI 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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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 not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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 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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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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