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.
ABEL FERRARAMy job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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 existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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