How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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