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 FERRARAI live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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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 grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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 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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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