Abel Ferrara Quotes

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Anybody Festival Film Listen Right Show Want
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Direct Movie Own Stop Talking
It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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Fast Funny Hardest Improvised Laughing Look Loose Something Thing
Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Couple End Guess People Sitting World Writing
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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Act Direct Existence Making Movie Punch Rock Roll
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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Cost Determination Imagination Life Limit Point
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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Life Need No One Proof See Visible Watch
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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Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Answer Change Door Except Making Money
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.’
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Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
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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Beating Country Gangster Heart Mulberry State Street Yuppie
I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Care Do Film Get Million
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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Brought Country Culture Live Respect State Twenty Year
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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Gonna Imagination Limit Only Stop Thing
He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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Culture English Food Language never Spoke Word
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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Building Day Do Empire Going Jump Last Life State
Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Circumstance Completely Constant Crisis Done Filmmaking Make Many Movie Under
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
I’m about my characters.
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All Character Having Mine Own
You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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Make Movie Telephone Want Wish
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Formation Literature Piece Process Script
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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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House Ipad Machine Message Real Shut Sing Song Washing
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Bunch Fame Journey Life Model Mulberry Success Yuppie
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Day Going Last Life

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