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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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’m about my characters.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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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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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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