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.’
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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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’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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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