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.
ABEL FERRARAAnd 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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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 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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