There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAI’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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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’m about my characters.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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