I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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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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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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