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.
ABEL FERRARAI live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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 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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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.
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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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’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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