I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARAThe limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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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 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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I’m about my characters.
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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