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.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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