The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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 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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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 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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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