Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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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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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 about my characters.
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