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 FERRARAWhen 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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
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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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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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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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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