As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARABut I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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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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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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