I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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