Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARAHe 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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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.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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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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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