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.
ABEL FERRARAHe 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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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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 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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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