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 FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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