That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARACertain 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.’
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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 actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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