Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAThe limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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 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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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