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.
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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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 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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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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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