Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAThe world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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?
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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 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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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