I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I’m about my characters.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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