I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m about my characters.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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