How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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’m about my characters.
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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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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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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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