Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAAnd get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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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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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’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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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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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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I’m about my characters.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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