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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Abel Ferrara

A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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 FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
I’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARA

All Character Having Mine Own
Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
ABEL FERRARA

Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARA

Care Do Film Get Million
My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
ABEL FERRARA

Act Direct Existence Making Movie Punch Rock Roll
I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARA

Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
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.’
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARA

Day Going Last Life
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Fast Funny Hardest Improvised Laughing Look Loose Something Thing
I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
ABEL FERRARA

Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
ABEL FERRARA

Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat

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