The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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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 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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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 limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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