He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAMy 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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 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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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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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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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Рow 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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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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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