In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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