In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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