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 FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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