The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARAI live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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 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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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