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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARA

Bronx Grew Music Rap
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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Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARA

Basically Business Film Honor Thieve Work
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARA

never Problem
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
ABEL FERRARA

Act Direct Existence Making Movie Punch Rock Roll
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARA

Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
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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Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
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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Fast Funny Hardest Improvised Laughing Look Loose Something Thing
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Human Human Being Movie Result
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARA

Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working

A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

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