I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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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’m about my characters.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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