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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?

Abel Ferrara

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?
ABEL FERRARA

Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARA

Bronx Grew Music Rap
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
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 FERRARA

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
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
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARA

Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARA

Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARA

Day Going Last Life
Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARA

Couple End Guess People Sitting World Writing
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARA

Help Mine Other People Thing Type
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
ABEL FERRARA

Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
I’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARA

All Character Having Mine Own
I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARA

never Problem

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