A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARAРow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I’m about my characters.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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 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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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