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.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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