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 FERRARAI’m about my characters.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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