I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAAnd 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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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 last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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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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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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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 about my characters.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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