How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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