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Abel Ferrara Inspirational Quotes (43)

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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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. 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 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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
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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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
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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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I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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