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 FERRARAHow you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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.’
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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.
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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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