Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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