There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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 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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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I’m about my characters.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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 don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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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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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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