Latest Abel Ferrara Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Abel Ferrara

  People, Done, Problem

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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?

  Abel Ferrara

  Believe, Important, Earth

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

  Sex, Gambling, Talking

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

  Abel Ferrara

  Results, Humans, Human Beings

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

  Abel Ferrara

  Rap, Bronx, Grew

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• 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. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.

  Abel Ferrara

  Song, Real, Ipads

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

  Abel Ferrara

  Jobs, Film, Ends

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• 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.

  Abel Ferrara

  Two, Breathing, Car

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• 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.

  Abel Ferrara

  Couple, Writing, People

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

  Abel Ferrara

  Finance, Raises, Direct

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

  Abel Ferrara

  Drinking, Differences, World

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

  Abel Ferrara

  Knives, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• 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.

  Abel Ferrara

  New York, Years, Southern Italy

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

  Abel Ferrara

  Long, Film, Lifetime

  "Abel Ferrara's Teacher". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

• 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.

  Abel Ferrara

  World, Spots, Mark

  "Abel Ferrara’s Teacher". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.