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.
ABEL FERRARAThere 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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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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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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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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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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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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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I’m about my characters.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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