I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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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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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 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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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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