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 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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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