You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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