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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.

Abel Ferrara

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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Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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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Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
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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Building Day Do Empire Going Jump Last Life State
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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Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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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Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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Help Mine Other People Thing Type
I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Buddhist Catholic Lapse Point Worship
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 FERRARA

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
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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Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Make Movie Telephone Want Wish

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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