Abel Ferrara Quotes

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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…
• No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
• 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.
• I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
• 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…
• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
• I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
• Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
• 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…
• I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
• 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…
• 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…
• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
• 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…
• A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

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