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 FERRARAThe more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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Đ ow 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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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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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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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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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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