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.’
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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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’m about my characters.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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