And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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