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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.

Abel Ferrara

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.
ABEL FERRARA

Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARA

Changing Constantly Learning Mark Spot Willing World
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
Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Hard Push Pushing Success Work
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
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARA

Day Going Last Life
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

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARA

Help Mine Other People Thing Type
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
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARA

Formation Literature Piece Process Script
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Movie Own Stop Talking

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