Abel Ferrara quotes

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. (Abel Ferrara)
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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I'm about my characters.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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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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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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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
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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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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. (Abel Ferrara)
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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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. 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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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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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)
A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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