A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARAI was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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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’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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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