Although 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.
ABEL FERRARAI come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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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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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’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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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