A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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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’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 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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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