He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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’m about my characters.
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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.’
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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 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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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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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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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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