Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
ABEL FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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 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.
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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 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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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