How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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’m about my characters.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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