I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAI come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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