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.
ABEL FERRARAAlthough 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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’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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