Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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 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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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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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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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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