My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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 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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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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