I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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’m about my characters.
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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’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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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