I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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