There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAWhen 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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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