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
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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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