I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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