I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAAlthough 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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There 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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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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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