I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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’m about my characters.
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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’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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 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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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