The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARAYou want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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 brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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.
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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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