I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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