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.
ABEL FERRARA
And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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