You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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 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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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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 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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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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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