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

Abel Ferrara

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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Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Come Done Film Success World
You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Based Dollar Endeavour Know Long Million Month
And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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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Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
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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Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Answer Change Door Except Making Money
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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Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Balance Chill Equilibrium Trying Work
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
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Away Editing Finish Make never You
There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Death Difference Drinking Drugging Ending Tomorrow World
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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never Problem
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking

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