Abel Ferrara Quotes

That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARA

Away Editing Finish Make never You
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Equilibrium Trying Work
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARA

Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
ABEL FERRARA

Based Dollar Endeavour Know Long Million Month
In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARA

Basically Business Film Honor Thieve Work
I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARA

Bronx Grew Music Rap
I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
ABEL FERRARA

Buddhist Catholic Lapse Point Worship
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARA

Help Mine Other People Thing Type
The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Hard Push Pushing Success Work
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARA

Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARA

never Problem
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Every Message Postmodern Real Sing Single Started Stopped Time
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARA

Fix Going Keep Knowledge Place Spot Take
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
ABEL FERRARA

Believe Christmas Day Earth Eve Important Lst Okay Pow
There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARA

Death Difference Drinking Drugging Ending Tomorrow World
Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARA

Human Human Being Movie Result
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
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
ABEL FERRARA

Changing Constantly Learning Mark Spot Willing World

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