The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAThe more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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