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.
ABEL FERRARAI was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m about my characters.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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.
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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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