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.
ABEL FERRARAThere’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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