As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARAI’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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