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 FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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?
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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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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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