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 FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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Mulberry 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.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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