There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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