I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
ABEL FERRARAAlthough 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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