Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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.
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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. 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, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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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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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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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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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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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. 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. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? 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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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, 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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - 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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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I'm about my characters.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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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It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, 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... Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.
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