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
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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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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I’m about my characters.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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