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 FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I’m about my characters.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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