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 FERRARAI’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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 need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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