A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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