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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.

Abel Ferrara

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’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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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.
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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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