There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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