That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARAYou want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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 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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