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.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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