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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

Abel Ferrara

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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Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
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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Believe Christmas Day Earth Eve Important Lst Okay Pow
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Bronx Grew Music Rap
You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Make Movie Telephone Want Wish
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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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House Ipad Machine Message Real Shut Sing Song Washing
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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Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Formation Literature Piece Process Script
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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Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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Basically Business Film Honor Thieve Work
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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Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
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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Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
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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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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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Direct End Film Going Job
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle

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