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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.

Abel Ferrara

I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
ABEL FERRARA

Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARA

Death Difference Drinking Drugging Ending Tomorrow World
I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARA

Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARA

Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
ABEL FERRARA

Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARA

Care Do Film Get Million
Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARA

Couple End Guess People Sitting World Writing
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARA

never Problem
The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Hard Push Pushing Success Work
Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARA

Age Country Early Father Moved Problem

You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.

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