I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 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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