I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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