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.
ABEL FERRARAMulberry 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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