Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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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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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.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I’m about my characters.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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