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 FERRARAThen there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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