A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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