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.’
ABEL FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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