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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Abel Ferrara

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARA

Answer Change Door Except Making Money
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARA

Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARA

Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARA

Away Editing Finish Make never You
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARA

Come Done Film Success World
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
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
I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARA

Care Do Film Get Million
I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARA

Bronx Grew Music Rap
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 FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
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

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