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 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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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