Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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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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