The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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