Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARAAlthough 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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