My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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