And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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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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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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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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