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 FERRARAI’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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