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.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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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 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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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