I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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