My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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