I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make 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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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