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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.

Abel Ferrara

He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARA

Culture English Food Language never Spoke Word
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 FERRARA

Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
ABEL FERRARA

Act Direct Existence Making Movie Punch Rock Roll
It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARA

Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARA

Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARA

Make Movie Telephone Want Wish
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
ABEL FERRARA

Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARA

Help Mine Other People Thing Type
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
ABEL FERRARA

Based Dollar Endeavour Know Long Million Month
Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Cost Determination Imagination Life Limit Point
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.’
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARA

Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking

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