I’m about my characters.
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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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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