My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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