Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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