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.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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