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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Abel Ferrara

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
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Fast Funny Hardest Improvised Laughing Look Loose Something Thing
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARA

Human Human Being Movie Result
I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARA

Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
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
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARA

Come Done Film Success World
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
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
Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
ABEL FERRARA

Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARA

Formation Literature Piece Process Script
I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
ABEL FERRARA

House Ipad Machine Message Real Shut Sing Song Washing
I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
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
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
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing

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