I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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 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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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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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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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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