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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More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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 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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I’m about my characters.
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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.
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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