Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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 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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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