There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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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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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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 limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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