I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARAI’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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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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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