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.
ABEL FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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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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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 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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