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 FERRARACertain 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.’
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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 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.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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