When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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