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 direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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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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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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