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.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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