I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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