I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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’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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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