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.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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 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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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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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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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