I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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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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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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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