I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARAMy existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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 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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But 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.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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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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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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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 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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