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 FERRARAI’m about my characters.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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