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.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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