My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
ABEL FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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 grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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