A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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