I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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 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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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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 about my characters.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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