Abel Ferrara quotes - page 2

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.' (Abel Ferrara)

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

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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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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

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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.

Abel Ferrara

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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Abel Ferrara

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Photo: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Director
Born: July 19, 1951
Quotes count: 35

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