How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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’m about my characters.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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.’
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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 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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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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