The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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