I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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?
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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