I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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