Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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?
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