I’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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