As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARAI direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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