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.
ABEL FERRARAThe limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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 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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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