Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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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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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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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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