Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARAAnd get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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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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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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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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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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 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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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