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
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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’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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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