There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARAIt’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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