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
ABEL FERRARAThen there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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