A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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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 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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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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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