There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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 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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