I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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