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
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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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