I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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