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.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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