And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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