Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARAHow you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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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 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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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