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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.

Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Human Human Being Movie Result
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARA

Away Editing Finish Make never You
I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARA

Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARA

Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
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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Cost Determination Imagination Life Limit Point
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARA

Answer Change Door Except Making Money
There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Building Day Do Empire Going Jump Last Life State
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
ABEL FERRARA

Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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 FERRARA

Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARA

Come Done Film Success World

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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