Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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 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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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