I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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