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 FERRARAI’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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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 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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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