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 FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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