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.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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 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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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