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.
ABEL FERRARAI’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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’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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I 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.
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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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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.
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