I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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 don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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