And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARASo 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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