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. 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. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? 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?

Abel Ferrara

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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

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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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away-from-you editing

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

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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 not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

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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. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. 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, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

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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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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 direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

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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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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, 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... Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.

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problem done people

I'm about my characters.

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