I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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