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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

Abel Ferrara

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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Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Age Country Early Father Moved Problem
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Day Going Last Life
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Away Editing Finish Make never You
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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Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
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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Direct End Film Going Job
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Formation Literature Piece Process Script
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Human Human Being Movie Result
I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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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Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
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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Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Building Day Do Empire Going Jump Last Life State
The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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Gonna Imagination Limit Only Stop Thing

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