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.
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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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