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.
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 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.
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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 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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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