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 FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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
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I’m about my characters.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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