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.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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