I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I’m about my characters.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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 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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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