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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Abel Ferrara

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARA

Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARA

Away Editing Finish Make never You
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 FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
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 FERRARA

Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARA

Changing Constantly Learning Mark Spot Willing World
I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
ABEL FERRARA

Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARA

Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
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?
ABEL FERRARA

Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
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
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARA

Couple End Guess People Sitting World Writing
He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARA

Culture English Food Language never Spoke Word

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