I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARAI 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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I’m about my characters.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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?
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