He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAWhen 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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