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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

Abel Ferrara

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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Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
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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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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Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Day Going Last Life
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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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Help Mine Other People Thing Type
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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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