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
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m about my characters.
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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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