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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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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