How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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’m about my characters.
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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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