I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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