Abel Ferrara Quotes

For a long time I've been trying to make this film and everyone told me you couldn't make a film about religion. What can I say, passion dollars baby!

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Thank God, Mel had the gold in his pocket. He is the big winner and he deserves it and I think that we got his spill-over.. 'Passion dollars' baby, you know what I mean?

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It was a sad moment.

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I grew up in the late '50s. I came from a real place and needed to see the movies that were around then. We went to those movies young. We were lucky - between '67 and '73 was pretty much a golden age. You saw everything you could want to see; you got an education. Pasolini and Hitchcock, Godard. It was all happening at once; you saw the best, like Jean Vigo, who died so young. Tragic - such a good filmmaker.

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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 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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

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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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