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 FERRARAMy 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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