Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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 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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 about my characters.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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