The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I’m about my characters.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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