I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAThere’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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