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.
ABEL FERRARAYou want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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 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.
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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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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 about my characters.
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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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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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