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.
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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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 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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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