My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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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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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 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 know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I’m about my characters.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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’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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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