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 FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 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.
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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 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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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