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.
ABEL FERRARAI direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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 world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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’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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