I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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 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’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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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