I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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