A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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