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I’m about my characters.

Abel Ferrara

My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
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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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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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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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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 world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Changing Constantly Learning Mark Spot Willing World
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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Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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